"I am not a lover of lawns. Rather……" — William Henry Hudson
"I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too - well-tended lawn."
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William Henry Hudson
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11 Quotes by William Henry Hudson
William Henry Hudson has 11 quotes on this site.
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Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy…
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Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem....…
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There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions,…
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Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
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The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.
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We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time;…
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A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight…
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For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly,…
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Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it…
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You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
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More Daisies Quotes
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one of 130 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
— Drew Barrymore
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Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all…
— Michael Bamberger
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Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Never a daisy grows, but a mystery guideth the growing.
— Unknown Author
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I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is…
— Joely Richardson
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The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.
— William Wordsworth
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All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing…
— George MacDonald
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I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest…
— Richard Bach
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My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it's a very different…
— Boy George
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I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the…
— Tom T. Hall
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Daisy chains are pretty fragile, and it turns out that families are too.
— Cathy Cassidy
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