Famous quotes containing the words green and/or earth:
“Who are the violets now
That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays:
Whether we look, or whether we listen,
We hear life murmur, or see it glisten;”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)