"MIGHTY OAKS FROM
LITTLE ACORNS GROW"
Our Tour Company, Acorn Adventures, is based on the beautiful saying above.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations declares it a 14th century proverb
but its specific origin remains unknown.
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Some look to Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, 1387,
whose earlier work Troilus and Criseyde, 1374, included this line:
"as an ook cometh of a litel spyr"
FYI a spyr, or spire, is a sapling. Which is cute.
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Perhaps Chaucer inspired Thomas Fuller in his In Gnomologia, 1732:
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"The greatest Oaks have been little Acorns"
And perhaps Fuller inspired D. Everett when he wrote The Columbian Orator, 1797:
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"Large streams from little fountains flow,
Tall oaks from little acorns grow."
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We don't know where it came from but it inspired us. And now it can inspire you.
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