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Quotes About Fir

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Her sides were made from oak and Norwegian mountain fir
~ Alfred Lansing
My woods...the young fir balsams like a place Where houses all are churches and have spires.
~ Robert Frost
The fir is the tree of mystery and shadows, and yields never to the encroachments of crude radiance
~ L.M. Montgomery
the ghosts of glaciers drift among those folds and folds of fir
~ Elizabeth Bishop
In treating of the oak, I have considered that the species of it growing in warm climates is superior to that which is produced in cold countries. But we must not imagine this to be the case with all woods; on the contrary, the fir timber grown in cold countries is superior to that produced in warm ones, where its growth is rapid.
~ Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays.
~ Blake Lively
A massive fir, it rose to nearly touch the ceiling at the far end of the ballroom. When Will asked Charlotte how on earth it had gotten in there, she had only waved her hands and said something about Magnus.
~ Cassandra Clare
No sooner had the town dropped back than all sort of stuff and nonsense, as is usual with us, began scrawling itself along both sides of the road: tussocks, fir trees, low skimpy stands of young pines, charred trunks of old ones, wild heather, and similar gibberish.
~ Nikolai Gogol