Cultivation Quote by Washington Irving Download Open image “There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.” — Washington Irving ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cultivation Forests Pure Simple Taste Tree Trees
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery. — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
The tree that never had to fight for sun and sky and air and light but stood out in the open plain and always… — Douglas Malloch Copy Share Image
The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now. — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
Trees are complicated, fascinating things, usually older and more beautiful than any of us. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Trees are not simple, they are the best examples of tolerance. They bear all the climatic changes, living beings torture but stands still with… — Bhar Copy Share Image
“To support an adequate standard of living, humankind still needs huge quantities of wood and wood products, from planking and beams and fibreboard to… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see… — Julius Sterling Morton Copy Share Image
What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility!… — Susan Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for… — Gary Ryan Blair Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass,… — Dogen Copy Share Image
In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means life. It's… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture… — George Will Copy Share Image
To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image