Foxgloves Quotes

• I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster, Nor long summer bide so late; And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster, For some things are ill to wait.

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  Jean Ingelow

  Summer   Spring   Long  

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.57

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• O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's observatory--whence the dell, In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.

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  John Keats

  Rivers   Solitude   Foxgloves  

  John Keats (2016). “Keats: 'Ode to a Nightingale' and Other Poems”, p.13, Michael O'Mara Books

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• The scope of herbal medicine ranges from mild-acting plant medicines such as chamomile and peppermint, to very potent ones such as foxglove (from which the drug digitalis is derived). In between these two poles lies a wide spectrum of plant medicine with significant medical applications. One need only go to the United States Pharacopoeia to see the central role that plant medicine has played in American medicine.

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  Donald Brown

  Lying   Plant Medicine   Two  

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• Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.

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  Emily Dickinson

  Summer   Air   Blue  

  "I taste a liquor never brewed" l. 5 (ca. 1861)

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• My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

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  Clive Anderson

  Home   Garden   Thinking  

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• The foxglove, with it's stately bells Of purple, shall adorn thy dells.

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  David Macbeth Moir

  Flower   Purple   Foxgloves  

  David Macbeth Moir (1852). “The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir”, p.140

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