Ferns Quotes

30 quotes by 27 authors

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets… — Diane Ackerman
It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer months, before business, at Leipzig… — Arthur Harry Church
In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an illusory relationship with… — Leo Lionni
When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine… — Joan Halifax
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin,… — Charles Caleb Colton
My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me.… — A. P. Herbert
On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm. This is the… — Alexander Carmichael
Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love; remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That is, of child,… — Kathleen Raine
There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom,… — Terry Pratchett
The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably… — Virginia Woolf
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow… — Edmund Burke
Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs… — Emily Carr
Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to the topography, drenching… — David Abram
I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal. — Jack Dorsey
Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in. — John Muir
Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love… — William Allingham
come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain — W S Merwin
Burn, burn tree and fern! Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch To light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Bake and toast â€˜em, fry… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I'm sure the red fern has grown and has completely covered the two little mounds. I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath… — Wilson Rawls
I had heard the old Indian legend about the red fern. How a little Indian boy and girl were lost in a blizzard and had… — Wilson Rawls

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