Famous quotes containing the words long, leaf and/or pine:
“But the ball is lost and the mallet slipped long since from the hands
Under the running tap that are not the hands of a child.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“A few pieces of fat pine were a great treasure. It is interesting to remember how much of this food for fire is still concealed in the bowels of the earth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)