Famous quotes containing the words green and/or silk:
“In the cowslips peeps I lie,
Hidden from the buzzing fly,
While green grass beneath me lies,
Pearled wi’ dew like fishes’ eyes,
Here I lye, a clock-a-clay,
Waiting for the time o’ day.”
—John Clare (1793–1864)
“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.