Grove Quotes
106 Grove quotes by 88 unique authors
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I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers.
— Friedrich Holderlin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.
— Steve Sheinkin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
— Edmund Burke
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.
— William Cowper
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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
Who Wrote These Grove Quotes
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