Green Shoots

Famous quotes containing the words green and/or shoots:

“Therefore awake! make haste, I say,
And let us, without staying,
All in our gowns of green so gay
Into the Park a-maying!”
—Unknown. Sister, Awake! (L. 9–12)

“But felt through all this fleshly dress
Bright shoots of everlastingness.”
—Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)