Evergreens Quotes:

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

- Abraham Lincoln

source: "The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln".

topic: Laughter, Joyous, Evergreens

It's only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens.

- Confucius

topic: Winter, Cypresses, Evergreens

That's the evergreen nature of a great song. They can be resurrected. They can be covered. They can find new relevance due to changing circumstances in history.

- John Legend

topic: Song, Circumstances, Evergreens

I am evergreen, and with every passing day, I am becoming younger.

- Mithun Chakraborty

topic: Evergreens

The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2010). “Mansfield Park: With an Introduction, Contemporary Opinions, and Contemporary Criticism”, p.212, Ignatius Press

topic: Beautiful, Country, Thinking, Mansfield Park, Evergreens

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

topic: Years, Long, Tree, Diabolical, Evergreens

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

- Ellsworth Huntington

source: Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.41, VM eBooks

topic: Home, Science, Animal, Woods And Forests, Evergreens

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.

- Ellsworth Huntington

source: Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.40, VM eBooks

topic: America, Forests, Type, Woodland, Evergreens

Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat-glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?

- Frank N. Ikard

topic: Morning, Children, Animal, Arbor Day, Canaries

Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces, dressing up some scene for our entertainment. Lately we had a leafy wilderness; now bare twigs begin to prevail, and soon she will surprise us with a mantle of snow. Some green she thinks so good for our eyes that, like blue, she never banishes it entirely from our eyes, but has created evergreens.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2799, Delphi Classics

topic: Eye, Winter, Thinking, Winter Days, Evergreens

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

- Judith Perelman Rossner

topic: Change, People, Blind, Evergreens

you mustn't rely on your flowers to make your garden attractive. A good bone structure must come first, with an intelligent use of evergreen plants so that the garden is always clothed, no matter what time of year. Flowers are an added delight, but a good garden is the garden you enjoy looking at even in the depths of winter.

- Margery Fish

topic: Flower, Winter, Intelligent, Evergreens

Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light,--to see its perfect success; but most are content to behold it in the shape of many broad boards brought to market, and deem that its true success! But the pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a man is to be cut down and made into manure.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.71, Trajectory Inc

topic: Nature, Cutting, Men, Spires, Lumber

Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant.

- Morihei Ueshiba

source: Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.42, Shambhala Publications

topic: Strong, Teaching, Tree, Plum Blossoms, Bamboo

The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.

- Scott Heim

source: Scott Heim (2008). “We Disappear: A Novel”, Harper Perennial

topic: Dream, Mother, Tree, Evergreens

Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging Drizzle State."

- Dave Barry

source: Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.97, Ballantine Books

topic: Nagging, Sound, Drizzle, Evergreens

The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third of the trees I walked under were still bare, a third spread a luminous haze wherever they grew, and another third blocked the sun with new, whole leaves. The snakes were out - I saw a bright, smashed one on the path - and the butterflies were vaulting and furling about; the phlox was at its peak, and even the evergreens looked greener, newly created and washed.

- Annie Dillard

topic: Strong, Morning, Butterfly, Haze, Greener

I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline; they are cut off from the sweetest of all ties with their kind - sympathy. ... I will have no evergreens in my garden; when the inevitable winter comes, every beloved plant and favorite tree shall drop together - no solitary fir left to triumph over the companionship of decay.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

source: Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.50

topic: Spring, Autumn, Cutting, Misanthrope, Evergreens

I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen.

- Andrea Bocelli

topic: Art, Crazy, Niece, Evergreens, Test Of Time

The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball.

- Martin Nolan

topic: Baseball, Stars, Quilts, Ballparks, City Planning

Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness.

- Earle Birney

source: Earle Birney (2014). “The Essential Earle Birney”, p.52, The Porcupine's Quill

topic: Time, Bears, Cold, Whiteness, Evergreens

Yes, it benefits the planet, but I don't lead with the green message anymore because I think there's a more evergreen way to look at it, which is efficiency.

- Elizabeth Rogers

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Thinking, Looks, Benefits, Evergreens

We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our winter foliage, our sombre evergreen, one of the seasons of our interior year.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

source: Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

topic: Winter, Years, Sorrow, Evergreens

The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths, but in bossy walls and heavy, mound-like heaps and banks. Am made to feel that I am now in a strange land. I know hardly any of the plants, but few of the birds, and I am unable to see the country for the solemn, dark, mysterious cypress woods which cover everything.

- John Muir

topic: Country, Wall, Dark, Cypresses, Bossy

It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.

- Anna Quindlen

source: Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

topic: Waste, Easy, Hours, Limestone, Fifth Avenue

HOLLY TREE (Ilex aquifolium) is a symbol of good will and is associated with sun gods. In Rome the holly was sacred to Saturn and was employed in the rites of the Saturnalia, where it was a symbol of health and happiness. The holly is an evergreen and therefore is associated with the sun god.

- Raven Grimassi

topic: Rome, Tree, Hollies, Sun God, Evergreens

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Rivers, Mourning, Tongue, Evergreens

How we sound was always the intention of how the band should sound. It has nothing with other options or going in a different direction. This has been the Evergreen Terrace sound all along and always will be.

- Josh James

topic: Sound, Different, Band, Evergreens, Terrace

Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can, when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the color and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favor of dirt.

- Sandra Boynton

source: "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion". Book by Sandra Boynton, 1982.

topic: Color, Vegetables, Consistency, Calcium, Phosphorus

[ Age Of Trump] was something that I really wanted to do, and I also really wanted it to feel evergreen, so we made a lot of attempts not to bog it down in the campaign fight, even though we were right in the middle of that. I wanted it to be something that could live on and be a conversation piece long after this inauguration, whoever it was going to be.

- Ava DuVernay

source: Source: deadline.com

topic: Fighting, Long, Age, Bogs, Evergreens

Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away.

- Homer

topic: Wish, Dollars, Eternal Happiness, Evergreens, Terrace

I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her eyes, downing vodka and sobbing uncontrollably. "We can't heal you at Evergreen", the very somber voiceover said. "But we can help you to heal yourself." It had become our own running joke, applicable to almost anything. "Hey Cass, "I'd say, "hand me that toothpaste." "Caitlin," she'd say, her voice dark and serious. "I can't hand you the toothpaste. But I CAN help you hand the toothpaste to yourself.

- Sarah Dessen

source: Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.222, Penguin

topic: Running, Fun, Stupid, Toothpaste, Perms

The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.

- Chuck Berry

topic: Country, Song, Boys, Log Cabins, Evergreens