Groves Quotes
54 quotes by 43 authors
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or…
— Diane Ackerman
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Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the…
— Samuel Johnson
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Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes,…
— John Evelyn
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Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us the sounds of…
— Diane di Prima
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Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and beast,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.
— Horace
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I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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Sometimes an unimportant incident is capable of turning everything beautiful into a moment of anxiety. We insist on seeing the mote in the eye and…
— Paulo Coelho
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The groves were God's first temples.
— William C. Bryant
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My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to…
— William Bartram
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Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the…
— William Bartram
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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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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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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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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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