A list of phrases about the natural world
Here's a select list of phrases and sayings inspired by plants and other natural phenomena:
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
A rolling stone gathers no moss
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
Every cloud has a silver lining
Heard it through the grapevine
Here lies one whose name is writ in water
Let not the sun go down on your wrath
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
Ring a ring o'roses, a pocketfull of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut
You can't get blood out of a stone
You look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
