Living Land Plants

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

    “So, when the last and dreadful Hour
    This crumbling Pageant shall devour,
    The TRUMPET shall be heard on high,
    The dead shall live, the living die,
    And MUSICK shall untune the Sky.”
    —John Dryden (1631–1700)

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

    “Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but find her our constant nurse and friend, as do plants and quadrupeds.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)