Modern Green Roof

Famous quotes containing the words modern, green and/or roof:

    “And, in fine, the ancient precept, “Know thyself,” and the modern precept, “Study nature,” become at last one maxim.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Don’t eat
    those nice green dollars your wife
    gives you for breakfast.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “A tempest cracked on the theatre. Quickly,
    The wind beat in the roof and half the walls.
    The ruin stood still in an external world.
    It had been real. It was something overseas
    That I remembered, something that I remembered
    Overseas, that stood in an external world.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)