A Quote by James Elroy Flecker

For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.

James Elroy Flecker

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Full Gossip Sigh Sing Tales Through Wide Wide World World

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James Elroy Flecker
British - Novelist
November 5, 1884 - January 3, 1915

Climb the steep Cold Mountain way Roads to Cold Mountain are many and never ending The valleys are long and deep, the peaks piled high The streams are wide, the grass is thick The moss is slippery though there is no rain The pines sigh though there is no wind Who can escape the snares of the world And come to sit with me among the white clouds?

Hanshan

Going to Santa Fe is like going to Greece. It's not that special compared to other areas. The pinon pines are no different than pinon pines elsewhere. But there has been culture there longer than in most places, and you feel it.

Robert Redford

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.

John Muir

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

Henry David Thoreau

A practical girl never pines; she takes action.

Adriana Trigiani

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.

Aldo Leopold

'Wayward Pines' has largely been, in my experience, a show left to the actors.

Melissa Leo

Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.

Edward Dahlberg

Oregon welcomed me like a beloved child, enfolded me in her cool arms, shushed my turbulent thoughts, and promised peace through her whispering pines.

Colleen Houck

Moonless winter night- a billow of rising fog hides the distant pines

Lenard Moore

Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas wreath on it, hoping he would look down from the Paradise of Ten Billion Trees and Unrationable Dog Biscuits and pity us.