Green Boughs

Famous quotes containing the words green and/or boughs:

“Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?”
—William Morris (1834–1896)

“No boughs have withered because of the wintry wind;
The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)