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Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. -- Steve Sheinkin
The groves were God's first temples. -- William C. Bryant
In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity. -- Anne Boyd
Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns. -- Anthony Lewis
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. -- Christopher Marlowe
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. -- William Bartram
Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. -- William Bartram
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre. -- John Clute
We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer. -- Diane Ackerman
Zionists believe they are entitled by God to the land, groves and homes of the non-Jewish underclass. They quote the Bible as the reference that 'God gave them the land.' The size of the alleged God-given land has never been determined and Israel's borders still remain fuzzy. -- Lee Whitnum
I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World. -- Anne Hull
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries. -- Tom Hodgkinson
When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book. -- Gary Jennings
And seek for truth in the groves of Academe. -- Horace
Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded. -- Maria Gowen Brooks
How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down? -- Henry David Thoreau
The bird That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings. -- William Somervile
Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost! -- Alexander Pope
We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life. -- Octavia Butler
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. -- Edmund Burke
Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being. -- Frances Mayes
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. -- Hermann Hesse
When Spring is old, and dewy windsBlow from the south, with odors sweet,I see my love, in shadowy groves,Speed down dark aisles on shining feet. -- Maurice Thompson
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Boy, you're like a horse. Just now sated with seed, You've come back to my stable, Yearning for a good rider, fine meadow, An icy spring, shady groves. -- Theognis of Megara
Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing. -- Charles Baudelaire
Trees are good for contemplation: Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a peepul tree. -- Colin Tudge
No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. -- John Muir
God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, you piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. -- Samuel Johnson
Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds the far billow, Where early violets die, Under the willow. -- Walter Scott
Manâ??s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. â?¦ Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells -- Allen Ginsberg
Sometimes an unimportant incident is capable of turning everything beautiful into a moment of anxiety. We insist on seeing the mote in the eye and forget about the mountains, the fields and the olive groves. -- Paulo Coelho
I saw them; there is nothing beautiful about them, just that they are a little higher than the others. Referring to one of the oldest and loveliest groves of redwoods, showing insensitivity to their magnificence. -- Ronald Reagan

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