Forests Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Forests
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“In the dewy wood tinselled with bewildering moonlight, the bumbling, tumbling babies of the fairy creche trip over the hem of her dress, which… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“The image of a wood has appeared often enough in English verse. It has indeed appeared so often that it has gathered a good… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire! I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moon's… — William Shakes Copy Share Image
The forest has always been a place, in fairy tales and in Shakespeare, where you go and discover who you are. You get stripped… — David Farr Copy Share Image
“I’ll wear a gown of golden leaves, and bind my hair with grass, But you can be my forest love, and me your forest… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I think there's something about a sylvan setting; you want grass and nature with outdoor Shakespeare. — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
“Outside the windows, the land was as flat, as interesting, as the head of an anvil, and the shadows of the corn advanced like… — Stephen Wright Copy Share Image
Voices in the forest tell of dark and twisted enchantments - as dark and twisted as the roots and grasping branches of the trees… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
“The Garden of Proserpine" Here, where the world is quiet; Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds' and spent waves' riot In doubtful dreams… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“All around the castle, a briary hedge began to grow, with thorns as sharp as barbs.” — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
My featherbed is deep and soft, and there I’ll lay you down, I’ll dress you all in yellow silk and on your head a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always… — Anna Torv Copy Share Image
The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort at a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Go afield with a good attitude, with respect for the wildlife you hunt and for the forest and fields in which you walk. Immerse… — Fred Bear Copy Share Image
All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. Even the trees of the wood are glad over you,… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Darkness, air, water, and sky will come together... and shake the forest to its roots. — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
This is not my Clan. Not any longer. ThunderClan is led by a kittypet, and there's nothing left to fight for. I feel no… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
