Luxuriant Quotes
16 quotes by 14 authors
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Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys…
— Phyllis McGinley
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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.
— Gautama Buddha
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Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in…
— Richard Allen
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Because of this erotic bond, the earth becomes luxuriant in its every aspect.
— Thomas Berry
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What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.
— William Herschel
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Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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The mere pronunciation of the word luxurious feels lush, luxuriant.
— Lady G
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Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free…
— Henry Fuseli
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Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old…
— Margaret Atwood
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Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly resinous,…
— Anna Akhmatova
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If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize…
— Stephen Fry
Who Wrote These Luxuriant Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 16 Luxuriant Quotes as follows: