Grows Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Swamps where cedars grow and turtles wait on logs but not for anything in particular; fields bordered by crooked fences broken by years of…

— E.B. White

We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.

— Francis Parkman

The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is…

— Junipero Serra

Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called "swamping" it, and they who do the work are called "swampers." I now perceivedthe fitness…

— Henry David Thoreau

I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and…

— John Burnside

“Off Spruce, there was a little known trail. A savage gulley wound through acreage of older residential homes that met up with Green Rock…

— Jazz Feylynn

If you took a blue spruce tree and planted it in the desert, it would obviously perish. How do we forget that we too…

— Dawna Markova

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It takes all…

— Kenneth Grahame

As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture, think you,…

— Jack London

“Now, of course, having failed in every attempt to subdue the Glades by frontal attack, we are slowly killing it off by tapping the…

— John D. MacDonald

I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army.

— Henry David Thoreau