Acorn Food Quotations
“The bittersweet of a white oak acorn which you nibble in a bleak November walk over the tawny earth is more to me than a slice of imported pineapple.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet, essayist. (1803-1882)
“Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.”
George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (1856-1950)
“Acorns were good till bread was found.”
Francis Bacon English philosopher, statesman (1561-1626)
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