Cypress Gardens Adventure

Famous quotes containing the words cypress, gardens and/or adventure:

    For I thought of her grave below the hill,
    Which the sentinel cypress tree stands over,
    And I thought, “Were she only living still,
    How I could forgive her, and love her!”
    “Owen” “Meredith” (1831–1891)

    The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences. Serpents, bears, hyenas, tigers rapidly vanish as civilization advances, but the most populous and civilized city cannot scare a shark far from its wharves.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Happy a while in Paradise they lay;
    But quickly woman longed to go astray:
    Some foolish new adventure needs must prove,
    And the first devil she saw, she chang’d her love:
    To his temptations, lewdly she inclined
    Her soul, and, for an apple, damn’d mankind.
    Thomas Otway (1652–1685)