Quotes About Apple-trees

Martial was among many who extolled the healthy life in the country, but he, at least, retained his sense of irony. My orchard isn't the Hesperides There's no Massylian dragon at the gate, Nor is it King Alcinous' estate; It's in Nomentum, where the apple-trees, Perfectly unmolested, bear a crop So tasteless that no guard needs be kept.

Where the pond's an open secret, where apple-trees whisper of waves, where the garden hanging on piles, holds the sky before its face.

remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb, blind but in certain ecstasy, for theirs is the hunger for Paradise.

It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that man—as he had long suspected—was the vilest work of God, and that only a fool would set himself up as a healer of a species that was best exterminated.