Foliage Quotes

46 quotes by 42 authors

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
Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit. — Theobald Smith
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage. — Mark Lowry
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
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
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
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
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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