Living Land Plants

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

“When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing—deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.”
—John Galsworthy (1867–1933)

“That impersonal insensitive friendliness which takes the place of ceremony in that land of waifs and strays.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

“And time brings down what is both strong and tall.
But plants new set to be eradicate,
And buds new blown, to have so short a date,
Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate.”
—Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672)