Groves Quotes

54 Groves quotes by 43 unique authors

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
Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded. — Maria Gowen Brooks
I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles… — Walt Disney
No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly… — John Muir
There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado,… — Theodore Roosevelt
No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther… — John Muir
The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths,… — John Muir
When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a… — Henry David Thoreau
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One aspect to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When Spring is old, and dewy windsBlow from the south, with odors sweet,I see my love, in shadowy groves,Speed down dark aisles on shining feet. — Maurice Thompson
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring… — Tom Hodgkinson
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain… — Christopher Marlowe
A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses;… — Charlotte Bronte
I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the… — H P Lovecraft
Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as… — Charles Baudelaire
I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed,… — Kim Stanley Robinson
The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk,… — Jack Kerouac
Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed… — Jack Kerouac
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though… — John Muir
If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with… — Rabindranath Tagore
[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the… — Malcolm Muggeridge
We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to… — Annie Dillard
I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember… — Anne Hull
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction… — John Clute
In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity. — Anne Boyd

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