Close Quote by Monty Don

Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.

— Gilbert White

Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

— Oscar Wilde

“Toward dusk, the black birds descend, millions of them, to sit in the branches of trees nearby. The trees grow heavy with black birds,…

— Thomas Pynchon

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

— Hugh Miller

WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.

— Oliver Cromwell

It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of…

— Anatoly Karpov

Hedgehogs need somewhere to hibernate through the winter, but also a place that they can lie out at during the day. So have a…

— Steve Backshall

We're not the only mammals who are partial to blackberries, far from it. Foxes and badgers will also gobble them up, helping to distribute…

— Alice Roberts

There are useful herbs growing near the oak tree by the stream," Flamepaw pointed out "Littlecloud would come for these" his tail curled up…

— Erin Hunter

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.

— Robert Frost

The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of…

— Anonymous