David Morrissey
Actor, Director
"Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic."
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Moss
58 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Author, Memoirist
"Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil."
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor, Producer, Environmental Activist
"Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb."
John Burroughs
Naturalist, Writer
"Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man."
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"So, if I had a mentor, it was Johnny Moss."
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"The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb."
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"Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture."
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"There is only going to be one Kate Moss. Kate is an icon."
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"The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm."
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"And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets."
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"I love the way Charlize Theron and Kate Moss dress."
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"For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down."
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"there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting"
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"The GOP of old has grown old and moss covered."
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"Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses."
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"The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive."
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"The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him."
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