Best Canopy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

“Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance.”

Years Lasts Beautiful Girl Sweet Spring Garden Rivers Towns Desperate Throwing Fragrance Rice Dazzling Canopy Azaleas

Book:The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection

Source: The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection

“Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think.”

Thinking Water Branches Shade Thick Muse Rude Oaks Moss Canopy

Author:Thomas Gray

“Green, the color of growth, or surgent life, enwraps the land. New green, still as individual as the plants themselves. Cool green, which will merge as the weeks pass, the Summer comes, into a canopy of shade of busy chlorophyll.”

Stills Individual Growth Week Land Color Summer Green Plant Busy Shade Canopy

Author:Hal Borland

“Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.”

Men Earth Water Air He Man Fame Mark Smoke Obtaining Foam Canopy

Author:Dante Alighieri

“Be guided by the stars which you place well on the canopy of your night sky.”

Wells Night Stars Sky Night Sky Canopy

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green stalks darkened, became tan, turned golden brown. The days grew long and hot. Thick towers of swirling black clouds brought rain, and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight that dwelled beneath the canopy. The wheat rose and the ripening heads bent in the prairie wind, a rippling curtain, an endless, undulating sea that stretched to the horizon.”

Source: The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave

“This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.”

Seems Earth Cynicism Apprehension Congregation Misanthropy Firmament Hamlet 2 Quintessence Important Hamlet Canopy Vapour Rosencrantz And Guildenstern

Author:William Shakespeare

“A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.”

Eye Lost Sea Huge Fool Mass Sight Towns Wide London Smoke Dirty Wilderness Crowns Sail Coal Bricks Here And There Caps Shipping Tiptoes Masts Peeping Canopy Steeples

Author:Lord Byron

“The greatest benefit derived from the study of science is that it lifts you out of and above the littleness of daily trials. We learn to live in the universe as a part of it; we cannot seperate ourselves from it - our every act connects us with it - our every act affects the whole. Standing under the canopy of stars and remembering their presence you could scarcely do a petty deed, or think a wicked thought.”

Thinking Whole Remember Universe Stars Study Benefits Standing Deeds Trials Lifts Wicked Petty Canopy

Author:Maria Mitchell

“There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.”

Inspiration Form Groups Tree Property California Branches Disciple Oaks Oak Tree Canopy

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.”

“Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft.”

Knows Giving Important Names Car Personality And Love Pilots Ownership Jet Aircraft Canopy

Author:Simon Sinek

“This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”

“My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said.”

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Book:Jellicoe Road

Source: Jellicoe Road

“A heart's a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy's spread wide. You're going to show everyone what it means to be a king.”

Men Feels Heart Mean Children Shows Kings Right Now Roots Spread Wide Feels Right Canopy

Author:Shannon Hale

“I don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. "It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It's not a very nice place these days.”

People World Giving Said Real Stories Seems Wonder Nice These Days Real World Fewer Ashes Mist Very Nice Fetish Alluring Unconcerned Canopy

Book:The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn

Source: The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn

“Some of the memories were not clear - -dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I'd seen his face... the way it felt when he'd held me in the meadow... the sound of his voice through the darkness of my faltering consciousness when he'd save me from James... his face as he waited under a canopy of flowers to marry me... every precious moment on the island... his cold hands touching our baby through my skin.”

“libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands”

Feels Book Sometimes Feelings Land Library Fascinating Stations Exotic Railway Canopy Railway Station Exotic Places

Book:The Prague Cemetery

Source: The Prague Cemetery

“I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.”

Forever Tree Canopy Jellicoe Road

Author:Melina Marchetta

“O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?”

“Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds fluttering around in the canopy. You are drastically imperiling a vast array of species within a few square miles of you. The number of these species may go to tens of thousands. Many of them are still unknown to science, and science has not yet discovered the key role undoubtedly played in the maintenance of that ecosystem, as in the case of fungi, microorganisms, and many of the insects.”

“It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk The dew that lay upon the morning grass; There is no rustling in the lofty elm That canopies my dwelling, and its shade Scarce cools me. All is silent, save the faint And interrupted murmur of the bee, Settling on the sick flowers, And then again Instantly on the wing.”

Morning Sun Flower Summer Sick Lays Wings Silent Drunk Settling Grass Shade Bees June Dwelling Dew Lofty Scarce Interrupted Canopy

Author:William C. Bryant

“Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?”

Giving Fear Rich Subjects Kings Silly Shade Sheep Shepherds Treachery Canopy

Author:William Shakespeare

“But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.”

Might Tree Listening Lovers Mark Shame Breathe Flames Maids Maidens Crimson Canopy

Author:William C. Bryant

“You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollow cockpit and strapped and plugged yourself into the machine. The canopy ground shut and sealed you off. Your oxygen, your very breath, you carried into the chilled vacuum, in a steel bottle.”

Machines Died Breaths Despite Fighter Aviation Bottles Combat Steel Oxygen Hollow Vacuums Chilled Canopy Cockpit

Book:The Hunters

Source: The Hunters

“Other factors affecting the '109 as a combat plane include the small cramped cockpit. This is quite a tiring working environment, although the view out (in flight) is better than you might expect; the profuseion of canopy struts is not particularly a problem. In addition to the above the small cockpit makes you feel more a part of the aeroplane.”

Feels Problem Might Views Environment Factors Flight Planes Combat Tire Better Than You Aeroplanes Canopy Cockpit

Author:Mark Ashley Hanna

“Fair Trade supports some of the most bio-diverse farming systems in the world. When you visit a Fair Trade coffee grower's fields, with the forest canopy overhead and the sound of migratory songbirds in the air, it feels like you're standing in the rainforest.”

World Feels Sound Support Air Tree Fields Like You Fairs Standing Trade Coffee Forests Diverse Farming Overhead Rainforest Bios Fair Trade Canopy Songbirds

Author:Miguel A. Altieri

“There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom, there's light for nothing but mosses and ferns. But when a giant falls, leaving a little space ... then there's a race - between the trees on either side, who want to spread out, and the seedlings below, who race to grow up. Sometimes, you can make your own space.”

Want Littles Sometimes Light Fall Grows Sides Space Race Growing Up Tree Sky Leaving Spread Forests Mediums Giants Gloom Moss Ferns Canopy Seedlings

Author:Terry Pratchett

“God's canopy is over you and will cover you at all times, preserving you from evil.”

God Evil All Time Over You Canopy

Book:Ever Increasing Faith

Source: Ever Increasing Faith

“This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.”

Looks Space Fire Air Brave Golden Excellent Roof Star Gazing Congregation Firmament Hamlet 2 Quintessence Important Hamlet Canopy Vapour

Author:William Shakespeare

“Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.”

World Needs Care Spiritual Hours Sitting Mysterious Wander Parks Observing Ants Benches Canopy Sitting On The Bench Treetops Park Benches Mysterious World

Book:Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“The moment comes when the great nurse, death, takes a human, the child, by the hand and quietly says, "It is time to go home. Night is coming. It is your bedtime, child of earth. Come; you're tired. Lie down at last in the quiet nursery of nature and sleep. Sleep well. The day is gone. Stars shine in the canopy of eternity."”

Humans Wells Children Moments Home Hands Earth Lasts Death Lying Night Stars Sleep Gone Quiet Eternity Tired Shining Nurse Nursery Bedtime Sleep Well Canopy

Author:Joshua L. Liebman

“O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.”

Sleep Gentle Nurse Insomnia Forgetfulness Slumber Can't Sleep Eyelids Sleeping In Funny Sleep I Can't Sleep Sleepiness Canopy Funny Sleeping Funny Insomnia

Author:William Shakespeare

“During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they move through the green depths of the canopy, like schools of fish.”

Looks Able School Moving Tree Bird Green Shining Depth Fishes Climbs Sunlight Canopy Schools Of Fish

Book:The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring

Source: The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring

“I humbly thank the gods benign, For all the blessings that are mine... The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the west; Soft o'er the poppy-fields of sleep, The drowsy winds of dreamland creep. What idle things are wealth and fame Beside the treasures one could name!”

“The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the west...”

Home Morning West Bounds Clouds Spread Crafts Sunset Dew Noon Drifting Amber Opal Canopy

Author:Robert Loveman

“Nothing can match the wonderment that comes from staring up into the star-filled canopy above and realizing that you are a part of that creation.”

Stars Realizing Creation Filled Staring Canopy

Author:Tim Ferriss

“Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour, and can be a very powerful and pleasing colour.... A grey clouded sky is indeed a canopy between us and the sun; so is a green tree, if it comes to that. But the grey umbrellas differ as much as the green in their style and shape, in their tint and tilt. One day may be grey like steel, and another grey like dove’s plumage. One may seem grey like the deathly frost, and another grey like the smoke of substantial kitchens.”