Apples Quote by Henry David Thoreau

And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

You would not go into an apple orchard and eat the weeds so why would you go into your day and feast on worries?.

— Pat McBride

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt…

— Diane Ackerman

From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“scraggly trees produce apples so sour that one only has to look at them to feel ill. Lousy Lane traverses”

— Lemony Snicket

“The fruit of the garden is not restricted to what we eat. Every garden lends something more to the imagination - beauty.”

— Vigen Guroian

“For the vast majority of our time on earth, our species did not buy its food or its clothing or its shelter or its…

— Matthew Fox

In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and…

— Nellie Bly

Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with…

— Paul Cezanne

Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to…

— Henry David Thoreau

The nostalgic notion of the family orchards is lovely - all that wholesome fruit for our forebears to sit on the back steps biting…

— Barbara Holland

“In May, when the grass was so green it hurt to look at it, the air so overpoweringly sweet you had to go in…

— Jane Hamilton