Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Robertson

It could come down all at once in the rain storms on Friday, who knows.

Richard Wilbur

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...

Rich Mullins

Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land. Look down upon this winter wheat and be glad that You have made blue for the sky and the color green that fills Your fields with praise.

Roald Dahl

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

Tori Amos

Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy

Robert Lowell

The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.

Sara Teasdale

Oh to be free of myself, With nothing left to remember, To have my heart as bare As a tree in December; Resting, as a tree rests After its leaves are gone, Waiting no more for a rain at night Nor for the red at dawn.

Sandra Tsing Loh

here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.

Warren Buffett

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble

William McDonough

The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree.

Willa Cather

Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.

W. S. Merwin

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

Zac Hanson

Lots and lots of trees together, equals big trees!

Tyra Banks

Once you plant seeds of success, your tree will bear fierce fruit.

Washington Irving

The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.

William Boyd

Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.

Rick Riordan

I thought maybe he was seeing another tree. - Juniper

Robert Graves

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

Nina Totenberg

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

Jerry Costello

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

Dave White

This is a unique program that rewards farmers and ranchers who are model conservationists and provides incentives for other producers to meet those same high standards of environmental performance.

Mike Patton

Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

Paul Stamets

Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive.

Paul Watson

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

Pope Benedict XVI

Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life.

Joseph Hall

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.