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“The size and height of the tree determines how heavily the ground will shake when it falls. The cassava tree falls and not even the pests in the forest are aware. The baobab tree falls and the whole forest looks empty! Such is human life!”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Foxtails Meaning: Blood of my blood Ptilotus | Inland Australia Tjulpun-tjulpunpa (Pit.) are small shrubs that form spikes of purple flowers covered in dense white hairs. Leaves are covered in closely packed star-shaped hairs that slow the rate of water loss. Traditionally, women used the soft furry flowers to line wooden bowls in which babies could be carried.”

Shrubs Genus Species Meaning Of Flowers

Book:The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

Source: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

“My childhood was full of hedges, the tight corset of green privet that ran the entire boundary of the house, orchard and garden; those I passed on the long walk to school, hedges of hawthorn and holly, sloe, blackberry and wild rose. In spring they were a tangle of white froth and carried primroses and cowslips at their base, violets and the odd bluebell that had strayed from the woods. In winter they would be peppered with scarlet, black and rust berries, grey clouds of old man's beard and dew-speckled spiders' webs that hung like diamond necklaces in the early-morning light.”

Flowers Berries Shrubs Hedges

Book:A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts

Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts

“It's when the seed grows up that it is known as a tree. Nobody calls the "seedlings" as "trees" and no seedling is ever useful because it doesn't produce fruits! You got to grow up!”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Myron settled back behind a shrub. There were lots of shrubs around here. Everywhere one looked. there were shrubs of various sizes and shapes and purposes. Rich blue bloods must really like shrubs, Myron decided. He wondered if they had any on the Mayflower.”

Rich Gardening Shrubs Mayflower Landscaping

Book:Back Spin

Source: Back Spin

“The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.”

Men Long Fall Animal Tree He Man Flower Solitude Speech Understood Rain Tongue Ease Perceive Rejoice Herbs Drought Shrubs

Book:The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc

Source: The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc

“If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Grows Water Flower Plant Faults Commit Cures Each Day Tall Spades Hoe Shrubs

Book:Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

“The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.”

Giving Tree Lows South Dry Tall Hints Shrubs Tall Trees

Book:Audubon, by Himself: A Profile of John James Audubon from Writings

Source: Audubon, by Himself: A Profile of John James Audubon from Writings

“Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.”

Way Half Sky Depends Gentle Dawn Goddess Pearls Purple Radiant Gems Hail Blushing Shrubs

Author:William Somervile

“Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.”

“All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.”

Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

“Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man.”

“Coffee has assumed a social meaning that goes far beyond the simple black brew in the cup. The worldwide coffee culture is more than a culture - it is a cult. There are usenet newsgroups on the subject, along with innumerable sites on the World Wide Web, and Starbucks outlets populate every street corner, vying for space with other coffeehouses and chains. And after all is said and done, it's just the pit of a berry from an Ethiopian shrub.”

“Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fellow, should shake the life out.of it in his rough play among the flowers? or is it a hardy shrub, which rejoices when the wild winds course along the heather or howl above the crest of Lebanon ' We need, believe me, the bravery of godliness to bear true witness for our Master now.”

Source: Lectures and Sermons

“There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i.e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, with carrieth a flower not unlike to this Lilly, save that it yeeldeth no smell nor hath those chives within; for whitenesse they resemble one another very much, as if Nature in making this floure were a learning and trying her skill how to frame the Lilly indeed.”

Ifs Trying Growing Wind Flower Skills Smell Herbs Shrubs

Author:Pliny the Elder

“Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters--who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdure, and retarding their progress to maturity.”

Kind Young Animal Progress Gains Letters Critics Forests Maturity Republic Bud Goats Deer Robbing Subsistence Shrubs

Book:The Complete Works: With a Memoir of the Author

Source: The Complete Works: With a Memoir of the Author

“Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from town's he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize. More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.”

Source: The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres

“The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.”

Firsts Water Freedom Rain Desert Midst Rejoice Showers Lilies Petals Sandy Shrubs Water Lily Rain Drop

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The virtuous to those mansions go Where pleasures unembitter'd flow, Where, leading up a jocund band, Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand, Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales, Pipes softest music through the vales, And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd, With velvet carpet spread the ground; With livelier blush where roses bloom, And every shrub expires perfume.”

Hands Pleasure Virtue Youth Band Spring Flow Rose Spread Virtuous Crowns Perfume Carpet Pipe Harmonious Hand In Hand Vigor Mansions Velvet Gale Flora Shrubs Zephyr

Book:The Ghost

Source: The Ghost

“And then the rose-border. What intensity in those odorous buds of the Bon Silene, making the very spirit bound as though a message had reached it from heaven. And the verbena bed is compassed with fitful fragrance. Even the pansies, with their dewy eyes, are ready to rival the violets now.... Nor must the purple buds of the calycanthus be forgotten. 'Sweet-scented shrub' indeed; for let me hide but a single one of these in some fold of my dress, and the spices of Araby will float around me till the evening.”

Eye Spirit Heaven Ready Sweet Bed Messages Let Me Dresses Rose Bounds Forgotten Evening Borders Intensity Violet Purple Floats Fragrance Rivals Folds Spices Bud Pansies Shrubs Spirit Bound

Author:Sarah Smiley

“The primary purpose of the Legislature in establishing "Arbor Day," was to develop and stimulate in the children of the Commonwealth a love and reverence for Nature as revealed in trees and shrubs and flowers. In the language of the statute, "to encourage the planting, protection and preservation of trees and shrubs" was believed to be the most effectual way in which to lead our children to love Nature and reverence Nature's God, and to see the uses to which these natural objects may be put in making our school grounds more healthful and at-tractive.”

“A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain.”

Grief Break Alive Air Tree Wind Rain Instinct Heavy Storm Flight Fantastic Fallen Length Stillness Bats Unnatural Spooky Crawling Blight Shrubs Foretelling

Book:Novels

Source: Novels

“Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.”

May Has Beens Seems Nations Growth Red Crosses Plant Remembered Branches Relief Shelter Oaks Frost Sturdy Shrubs Red Cross

Author:Clara Barton

“...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.”

“There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.”

Mind Moments Eye Certain Chance Views Bears Remains Plant Errors Impression Throwing Delicate Finest Leafs Veins Insects Admirable Entrances Ensemble Shrubs

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“He who lives up to a little light shall have more light; he who lives up to a little knowledge shall have more knowledge; he who lives up to a little faith shall have more faith, and he who lives up to a little love shall have more love. Verily the main reason why men are such babes and shrubs in grace is because they do not live up their attainments.”

Men Littles Reason Light Grace Reason Why Attainment Babe Why Me More Knowledge Little Love Little Faith Little Knowledge Shrubs

Author:Thomas Brooks

“If you cut a shrub back because it's just too big, and it dies, you haven't lost anything but a plant that couldn't live by your rules.”

Ifs Bigs Dies Lost Cutting Havens Plant Live By Shrubs

Author:Janet Macunovich

“My own preference is for mixed (beds) where there are ...groups of larger shrubs on corners and elsewhere to give shape to the views and to create surprises.”

Giving My Own Views Groups Shapes Bed Surprise Corners Elsewhere Preference Shrubs

Book:The art of planting, or, The planter's handbook

Source: The art of planting, or, The planter's handbook

“It is far better to limit our choice to real permanencies, which do not require staking... and a general mixture throughout of dwarf shrubs, perennials and ground-covers, with bulbs... This has been called gardening in four layers, and I believe it to be the most satisfying form of gardening.”

Believe Has Beens Real Form Choices I Believe Four Limits Satisfying Gardening Layers Mixtures Our Choices Dwarfs Bulbs Dwarves Shrubs

Author:Graham Stuart Thomas

“She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.”

People Fall Space Darkness Tree Sky Reaching Furniture Pouring Puzzled Shrubs

Book:The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

Source: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

“Lyon knew she wasn't aware she was being watched, either. She wouldn't have eaten the leaf otherwise, or reached for another. “Sir, which one is Princess Christina?” Andrew asked Lyon, just as Rhone started in choking on his laughter. Rhone has obviously been watching Christina, too. “Sir?” “The blond-headed one,” Lyon muttered, shaking his head. He watched in growing disbelief as Christina daintily popped another leaf into her mouth. “Which blond-headed one?” Andrew persisted. “The one eating the shrubs.”

Growing Eating Laughter Mouths Princess Leafs Shaking Disbelief Choke Andrew Christina Shrubs

Author:Julie Garwood

“Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate," said Elphaba. "See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?”

Said Faces Behinds Female Males Dear Beast Mates Organize Jungle Pardon Roaring Giggle Shrubs Elphaba

Book:The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

Source: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

“There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded out of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch.”

Bigs Office Posts Evolve Phenomenon Carbon Bangs Outrageous Post Office Supernova Shrubs

Book:A Fraction of the Whole

Source: A Fraction of the Whole

“I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.”

“My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.”

Water Groups Tree Rocks Fields Objects Garden Plant Woods Occupation Shrubs

Author:Russell Page

“I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.”

Years Wells Looks Eye Lasts Walks Wonder Seeing Tree Flower Spring Garden Infinite Edges Yesterday Variety Colour Each Day Sixty Vitality Rivals Shrubs Artefacts

Author:Bernard Berenson

“Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!”

“Eradication of this unquenchable shrub [tamarisk] will save water, lower salinity levels and create a more congenial habitat for the Southwest Willow Flycatcher and a number of other riparian species.”

Water Levels Numbers Species Habitat Shrubs

Author:Wayne Allard

“In water and on land, in trees, shrubs, and creepers-everywhere in the whole universe abides my Beloved. Further, all the various forms and modes of being that we behold, are they not expressions of my Beloved? For there is none save Him. He is smaller than the smallest, and greater than the greatest.”

Whole Form Universe Water Greater Tree Land Expression Various Beloved Smallest Shrubs Creepers

Author:Anandamayi Ma

“However small your garden, you must provide for two of the serious gardener's necessities, a tool shed and a compost heap. A wire bin takes up negligible space and can be concealed by shrubs, or you can make a small pit into which you sweep leaves and clippings, but try not to fall into it.”

Trying Two Fall Space Serious Garden Tools Shed Wire Pits Gardener Concealed Fertilizer Compost Shrubs

Author:Ann Scott

“Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to you a sermon full of love, of praise of God, and how they invite you to glorify the sublimity of that sovereign Artist who has given them being.”

World Whole Artist Given Tree Sky Flower Praise Saint Whole World Invites Sovereign Sermons Glorify Sublimity Shrubs

Author:Paul of the Cross

“I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look like a chair.”

Looks Wanted Design Chairs Shrubs

Author:Richard Schultz

“She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.”

Source: Milton's Paradise Lost: With Copious Notes, Explanatory and Critical, Partly Selected from Addison, Bentley, Bowle ... [et Al.] and Partly Original

“When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?”

Men World Said Reason Done Moments Cutting Wonderful Sight Seeds Contact Slips Ecology Sowing Said And Done Shrubs Grafting

Author:Saint Augustine

“A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.”

Men Years Country Rich Dear Passing Passings Forty Pounds Shrubs

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.”

People Green Surprise Gardener Thumbs Shrubs

Author:Jeffrey Donovan

“A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]”

Men Years Said Wisdom Science Cases Wise Research Hundred Importance Fundamentals Plant China Gardener Shrubs

Author:John Charles Polanyi