Living Land Plants

Famous quotes containing the words living, land and/or plants:

    “Life’s an awfully lonesome affair.... You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.”
    —Emily Carr (1871–1945)

    “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Exodus 20:12, one of the Ten Commandments.

    “When the
    Marne flowed by the plants nodded
    And above the glistering Gila
    A sunset as beautiful as the Athabasca
    Stammered. The Zambezi chimed. The Oxus
    Flowed somewhere.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)