Groves Quotes

54 quotes by 43 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
And seek for truth in the groves of Academe. — Horace
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
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
The groves were God's first temples. — William C. Bryant
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
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
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
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
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
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

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