#shade

The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox. The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides. The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun. The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus. The moral of the story? Kids are smart. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#cactus #child #children #clever #desert

Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#center #everything #green #mountain #rain

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints. ↗

— William Merritt Chase

#colors #effects #hues #light #match

Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning. ↗

— John W. Dawson

#areas #identical #languages #meaning #multitudes

Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#characters #christian #cinematic #committed #completely

Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#cakes #hot #i #judging #letters

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones. ↗

— William Kent

#darker #feeling #garden #had #itself

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#men #movement #natural #our #position

I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick. ↗

— Carole Lombard

#code #designed #first #fit #forget

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#around #blinds #cities #come #come and go