Mushroom/growth

Famous quotes containing the words mushroom and/or growth:

    We breathe an ill wind,
    nevertheless our kind
    in mushroom multitudes
    jostles for elbow-room
    moonwards ...
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)