Living Land Plants

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

“A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses—where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)

“What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn’t see Negroes hanging from its branches.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)