Famous quotes containing the words green and/or turtle:
“Who are the violets now
That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I think of the nestling fallen into the deep grass,
The turtle gasping in the dusty rubble of the highway,
The paralytic stunned in the tub, and the water rising,—
All things innocent, hapless, forsaken.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)