Ground pine may refer to:
- Ajuga, a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the mint family Lamiaceae, with most species native to Europe, Asia, and Africa; also, specifically:
- Ajuga chamaepitys, also known as yellow bugle, native to Europe, the Eastern part of the Mediterranean, and North Africa
- Diphasiastrum complanatum (syn. Lycopodium complanatum), also known as northern running-pine, a species of clubmoss native to dry coniferous forests throughout the Holarctic Kingdom
- Lycopodium, a genus of clubmosses in the family Lycopodiaceae, a family of fern-allies; also, specifically:
- Lycopodium obscurum, also known as princess pine, native to eastern North America
Famous quotes containing the words ground and/or pine:
“It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.”
—Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)
“How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into far, primitive forests, beyond the bounds of their civilization, where the moose and bear and savage dwell, for their pine boards for ordinary use. And, on the other hand, the savage soon receives from cities iron arrow-points, hatchets, and guns, to point his savageness with.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)