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Quotes About Dryads

Satyrs aren't dryads, but we have roots, too. Camp Half Blood is mine.
~ Rick Riordan
Yes; but if dryads are foolish they must take the consequences, just as if they were real people, said Paul gravely. Do you know what I think about the new moon, teacher? I think it is a little golden boat full of dreams.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Actually, it's thought to come from Greek mythology. According to Greek myths, dryads lived in trees, and people would invoke them for protection. Hence knocking on wood: just that added bit of protection so as not to tempt fate.
~ Jenny Han
Well did I come to know the presiding dryads of those trees, and often have I watched their wild dances in the struggling beams of a waning moon—but of these things I must not now speak.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree. One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?
~ Terry Pratchett