District Quote by Gilbert White Download Open image “The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.” — Gilbert White ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare District Forest Much Parish Taking Vast
In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I grew up in Sedgefield, which is in the heart of the area along the Garden Route that has been ravaged by fire. — Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters Copy Share Image
“The town was a series of dark shapes with edges picked out in moonlight; sloping rooves and gables, balconies and gutters met one another… — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say… Well may I fast, not from bread but… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“And I hope that all my readers are acquainted with an old English Cathedral town or I fear the significance of Mr Norrell’s chusing… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Things have changed. The suburbs are developed, but other parts, like where we recorded Spirit and Danse Manatee are still woodland and farmland. — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment… — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which… — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the… — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
“Floods are an act of God; flood damages result from the acts of men.” — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time,… — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
My district really wanted me... to take a hard stance against a Donald Trump agenda. — Jimmy Gomez Copy Share Image
I have always been an independent voice for the folks in my district. — Ann Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
The name of a district or a commissionerate should be what the country and the world identifies it with. — Yogi Adityanath Copy Share Image
Passionately defending one's principles is crucial. Representing your district is fundamental. But refusing to entertain the common ground - with no other cost but… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you call bureaucratic… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
I think the men in L.A. are very rugged, good-looking. Men in New York look metro with their manis and pedis and their Bruno… — Patti Stanger Copy Share Image
There's no way that I could be a congressman in a California district at 32. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
“But the district is getting rid of the grenade launchers, which it never intended to use to launch grenades or use in a school… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful for that.… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by… — Tim Walberg Copy Share Image
