Green Bamboo

Famous quotes containing the words green and/or bamboo:

    “Lately our poets loiter’d in green lanes,
    Content to catch the ballads of the plains;”
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

    “He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire.”
    —Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.