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Quotes About Orchard

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing.
~ Ezra Cornell
Come to the orchard in Spring.There is light and wine, and sweetheartsin the pomegranate flowers.If you do not come, these do not matter.If you do come, these do not matter.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us.
~ Herman Melville
It's not funny. I've got a naked drunk vampire running around in my orchard.
~ Ilona Andrews
It's true that I had a bucolic, truly peaceful childhood, growing up in a house next to our family's orchard. We had a lot of books and art, but no electricity until I was eight years old. Since then, I have seen a lot of inner-city life, though.
~ Virginia Euwer Wolff
I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money.
~ Steven Herrick
The orange tree took time to create this masterpiece.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.
~ Katherine Mansfield
The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.
~ Katherine Mansfield
There was a worm addicted to grape leaves, she continued, and suddenly it woke up. Call it a miracle, whatever, something woke it up and it wasn't a worm anymore. It was the whole vineyard, and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks, an ever-expanding joy that didn't need to devour anything.
~ Kathryn Davis
The music swells and I recognize the brilliance of it. As the notes overlap, they complement one another, forming a lovely, unearthly harmony. It was this sound then, thanks to Rue, that sent the orchard workers of District 11 home each night. Does someone start it at quitting time, I wonder, now that she is dead?
~ Suzanne Collins
Spring lay strewn lightly like a fragrant gauzy scarf upon the earth; the night was a cool bowl of lilac darkness, filled with fresh orchard scents.
~ Thomas Wolfe
Under an orchard tree, dropping with cherries, cowgirls lay in the shade. They fed each other fruit. Dark juice dribbled into dimples. Cherry meat stained smiles and nostrils.
~ Tom Robbins
He stood there at the edge of the orchard looking like he would never be whole again.
~ Tracy Chevalier
What the light looks like in the pear trees, in October, is a hundred teardrops of gold, the whole orchard weeping.
~ Carole Maso
Autumn is the bite of a harvest apple.
~ Christina Petrowsky
She looked down and saw Genji on his warhorse, and it was he who was out of place, not herself. The incongruity of a samurai in her orchard made her laugh. Her own laughter brought her back. Coming back, she began to weep. "My home was in Apple Valley," Emily said. "Another Apple Valley." After a time, Genji said, "This place was yours before you ever saw it.
~ Takashi Matsuoka
A Russian dacha, or summerhouse, in Western Washington State. Even the orchard's name was absurd. Belye Nochi.
~ Kristin Hannah
The garden stretched out in a soft drift, colors jumbled any way, an unmade bed of red and yellow and pink. Then came the trees. Apple, plum, and the Japanese black pine.
~ Cathleen Schine
In every orchard Autumn stands, With apples in his golden hands.
~ Alexander Smith
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard...
~ Walt Whitman
a wife and numerous progeny. The Judge was at a meeting of the Raisin Growers' Association, and the boys were busy organizing an athletic club, on the memorable night of Manuel's treachery. No one saw him and Buck go off through the orchard on what Buck imagined was merely a stroll. And with the exception of a solitary man, no one saw them arrive at the little flag station known as College Park. This man talked with Manuel, and money chinked
~ Jack London
An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.
~ Joel Salatin
Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions ? a walk, a talk, solitude in one's own orchard ? can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger's-breadth from goodness.
~ Virginia Woolf