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Quotes of the Day for 17 March 2005 - Green

Today is Saint Patrick's Day, celebrated by kids pinching those who forgot to wear green, absurd stories of snakes driven into the sea, and a lot of newly green beer being consumed. I have no quotes from Patrick and too few quotes on the Irish that wouldn't get me in trouble, so today's theme is Green.

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.
     - Fiona MacLeod, pen name of William Sharp, 1856 - 1905

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
     - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 - 1832

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
     - John Anthony Ciardi, 1916 - 1986

There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
     - Marcelene Cox

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
     - William Blake, 1757 - 1827

If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it.
     - Fred Allen, 1894 - 1956

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