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
Don't let the grass grow under your feet
Every cloud has a silver lining
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Heard it through the grapevine
Here lies one whose name is writ in water
Let not the sun go down on your wrath
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
Ring a ring o'roses, a pocketfull of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down
Sticks and stones may break my bones
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut
Where the bee sucks, there suck I
You can't get blood out of a stone
You look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards