Famous quotes containing the words open and/or ground:
“Before I am lost,
hell must open like a red rose
for the dead to pass.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to compare the first tender signs of the infant year just peeping forth with the stately beauty of the withered vegetation which had withstood the winter ... decent weeds, at least, which widowed Nature wears.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)