Climbers Quote by Maggie Oster

“Climbers — Altissimo, Don Juan, Jeanne Lajoie, Sombreuil, America, Royal Sunset and Handel. Shrubs — Dortmund, Hansa, Ruskin, Will Scarlet, Wanderin’ Wind, Golden Wings,”

— Maggie Oster

She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn;…

— John Milton

I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality…

— Bernard Berenson

Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters--who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon…

— Washington Irving

There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded…

— Steve Toltz

And then the rose-border. What intensity in those odorous buds of the Bon Silene, making the very spirit bound as though a message had…

— Sarah Smiley

Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate," said Elphaba. "See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she…

— Gregory Maguire

It is far better to limit our choice to real permanencies, which do not require staking... and a general mixture throughout of dwarf shrubs,…

— Graham Stuart Thomas

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost…

— Henry David Thoreau

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with…

— Henry David Thoreau

She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out…

— Katherine Howe

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

If you cut a shrub back because it's just too big, and it dies, you haven't lost anything but a plant that couldn't live…

— Janet Macunovich

Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft…

— Owen Feltham

In water and on land, in trees, shrubs, and creepers-everywhere in the whole universe abides my Beloved. Further, all the various forms and modes…

— Anandamayi Ma