Foliage Quotes
46 quotes by 42 authors
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness,…
— Aristophanes
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Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit.
— Theobald Smith
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How can the seed know that by dying in the soil it will become a great tree? It will not be there to witness the…
— Rajneesh
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When Zen masters say `effortlessness` they are referring to the state when your enlightenment is well rooted. Now there is no need of any effort;…
— Rajneesh
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the…
— Doris Lessing
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All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees with draggled foliage struggling along…
— Rex Ingamells
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Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life…
— Helen Keller
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All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each…
— Hermann Hesse
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Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria could…
— K. Eric Drexler
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In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of…
— Jacquetta Hawkes
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So many want to be lifted by song and dancing, and this morning it is easy to understand. I write in the sound of chirping…
— Linda Gregg
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But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is,…
— Richard Serra
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Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond;…
— Katharine Sergeant Angell White
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It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear…
— Thomas Malory
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The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.
— Mark Lowry
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Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows. Trees full…
— Andrew Jackson Downing
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The design of the gum is expressed in the flow of it trunk and limbs, and the design of the European tree mainly in its…
— Hans Heysen
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Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, and…
— James Dwight Dana
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What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their…
— Charles Lamb
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