(9 quotes found)
“The elm is scatteringits little loavesof sweet smellsfrom a white sky!”
William Carlos Williams
“The moans of doves in immemorial elms,/ And murmuring of innumerable bees.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“These trees are still alive. But the Dutch elm disease spreads so quickly. To prevent it from spreading to other trees, they have to be removed.”
Dave Clark
“Now that elms are rare, woolly apple aphids usually live on apples throughout the year.”
Janet Murphy
“In this story, two founding members of Elm Creek Camp had to leave to pursue other interests. This is the search for two replacements. There are five new characters, four women and one man, who have different backgrounds and areas of quilt history.”
Jennifer Chiaverini
“The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sunand a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leaftytongues a-whispering all at once. This ages tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale.It has kept its boughs unshattered, and its full complement of leaves, and the whole in perfect verdure,except a single branch, that, by the earlier change with which the elm-tree sometimes prophesies the autumn,had been transmuted to bright gold.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“We lived in Little Elm many years ago, from 1963 to 1975, and I continue to reside close to Little Elm with my brother John. We have a lot of old friends here, and they call me on a daily basis. It hurts my heart to tell them that I really don't know anything else.”
Melina Smith
“A good population of elms remains in Langford due to the diligence of the residents in quickly removing the problem trees,”
Craig Brown
“The way was through lanes bounded by elms, which, though not yet in full leaf, were so closely interwoven in the bank with a luxurious growth of holly, that nothing was to be seen beyond them - till on a sudden the road, ascending a steep hollow way, opened to a kind of common field, forming the top of a high promontory, commanding an immense extent of the sea, and, for many miles, the indented cliffs of the western coast.”
Charlotte Smith
