Quotes About Coppice

#1. It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up to the rails or wall which he himself has placed, and hence it often becomes a hedgerow and sometimes a coppice.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. He groped for his loafers and walked aimlessly for some time among the trees of the coppice where thrushes were singing so richly, with such sonorous force, such fluty fioriture that one could not endure the agony of consciousness, the filth of life, the loss, the loss, the loss.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them). Gold leaf or chiton-folds: the poet finds his models in his laurel coppice. But the Duende, on the other hand, must come to life in the nethermost recesses of the blood.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#4. I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.

James R. Clapper

#5. That's the way it was every time I studied it.

Eugene Ormandy

#6. History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.

Malcolm X

#7. Robbie Brace, a practical man, had chosen a practical field. Oh, but how it depressed him.

Tess Gerritsen

#8. Confidence is everything. If you start second guessing yourself, you're bound to run into more bad outings

Trevor Hoffman

#9. As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country, it is impossible that the whole should assemble to make laws. The first necessary step, then, is to depute power from the many to a few of the most wise and good.

John Adams

#10. You can't oversleep if you don't make plans to wake up early.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#11. We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change. Time and again, Americans have seen the need for change, and have taken the initiative to bring that change to life.

Al Gore

#12. Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.

Marlene Dietrich