Orchards Quotes

31 quotes by 29 authors

The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven… — Aeschylus
Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs,… — Mao Zedong
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards. — Mignon McLaughlin
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
This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight… — Jane Grigson
On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels… — Charles Dickens
Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you… — William Shakespeare
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
But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and… — Henry David Thoreau
The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native… — Henry David Thoreau
I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who… — Greg Peterson
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its… — Wallace Stevens
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon… — Edward Dahlberg
Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No wonder… — Neltje Blanchan
Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and… — Julius Sterling Morton
No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally -for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come… — Arthur Gordon Webster
The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. — Helen Hunt Jackson
EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards… — Siegfried Sassoon
Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing… — Carl Sandburg
...there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the… — Rohinton Mistry

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