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Hedgerows Quotes

Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.

Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.

Ouida
Poison, Hedgerows, Beard
Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.444

It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up to the rails or wall which he himself has placed, and hence it often becomes a hedgerow and sometimes a coppice.

Henry David Thoreau
Wall, Men, Hedgerows
David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.67, Harvard University Press

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