Quotes from work

Under the Greenwood Tree

“To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock; the holly whistles as it battles with itself; the ash hisses amid its quiverings; the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall.”

Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwood Tree

Source: Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), ch. 1

“There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.”

Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwood Tree

Source: Under the Greenwood Tree

“If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.”

Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwood Tree

Source: Under the Greenwood Tree

“Good, but not religious-good.”

Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwood Tree

Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), ch. 2