Grove Quotes

106 Grove quotes by 88 unique authors

I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers. — Friedrich Holderlin
The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god… — Tacitus
Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark… — Octavio Paz
I saw them; there is nothing beautiful about them, just that they are a little higher than the others. Referring to one of the oldest… — Ronald Reagan
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a… — Heidi Julavits
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds,… — Samuel Johnson
Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. — Steve Sheinkin
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to… — Thomas Merton
Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the… — Herman Melville
Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Meditation on a passage of scripture... led a young boy into a grove of trees to commune with his heavenly Father. That is what opened… — Ezra Taft Benson
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And… — Hermann Hesse
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
Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a question… — Henry Mitchell
Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being. — Frances Mayes
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. — Edmund Burke
Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida,… — John Lahr
Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the… — William Wordsworth
Zionists believe they are entitled by God to the land, groves and homes of the non-Jewish underclass. They quote the Bible as the reference that… — Lee Whitnum
If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a… — Seneca the Younger
The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed… — William C. Bryant
No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar. — William Cowper
The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a… — David Suzuki

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