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  • So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate. -- Judith Perelman Rossner
  • Laughter is the joyous universal evergreen of life! -- Abraham Lincoln
  • It's only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens. -- Confucius
  • A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness. -- Earle Birney
  • In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north. -- Ellsworth Huntington
  • Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging Drizzle State." -- Dave Barry
  • The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees. -- Scott Heim
  • Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems. -- W. H. Auden
  • Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant. -- Morihei Ueshiba
  • Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly. -- Ellsworth Huntington
  • How we sound was always the intention of how the band should sound. It has nothing with other options or going in a different direction. This has been the Evergreen Terrace sound all along and always will be. -- Josh James
  • We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our winter foliage, our sombre evergreen, one of the seasons of our interior year. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away. -- Homer
  • The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence. -- Jane Austen
  • Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can, when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the color and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favor of dirt. -- Sandra Boynton
  • I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen. -- Andrea Bocelli
  • Clear water sped over rocky clusters whose colors ran from ivories to mossy greens, blues and grays. Though clouds covered the sun, the sway of dappling evergreens gave the water sparkle. -- Barbara Delinsky
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