fern quotes

   The indifferencethe fern-dark indifference of this remote golden Australia. Not to carefrom the bottom of one's soul not to care.

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  Kangaroo, ch.10.

   I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.

-Tennyson
  'The Brook', l.23^6.