Charlie Pierce

Nobody loves the Boston Marathon as much as the people who make fun of it year after year. This was the race that previously offered as a prize a not particularly expensive medal, a laurel wreath, and a bowl of beef stew. This was the race that, on one memorable occasion, nobody knew who actually won.

American Journalist

Dorothea Dix

What child has ever known the country and has not twined hundreds of fragrant wreaths with the yellow shining cowslip and the more frail and delicate violet - mingling here and there green leaves culled from the odorous eglantine, or, as we more commonly call it, sweetbriar.

American Activist

Monty Don

I think that the essence of a Christmas wreath - of all Christmas vegetative decoration - has to be green and, if possible, living. So the basis of a wreath is ideally holly, laurel, ivy, rosemary, larch, fir or whatever is to hand.

English Celebrity

Queen Elizabeth II

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

English Royalty

Hillary Clinton

One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.

American Politician

Pippa Middleton

When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.

British Celebrity

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.

American Author

The truth is that wreaths have never really been part of my creative life. I like them and want them and know how to do them.

Wreaths are culturally associated with holidays and memorials.

Cultural Symbol

A wreath can represent respect for those who have passed, especially in military contexts.

Respect and Honor

Wreaths are often used as seasonal decorations, signifying particular times of the year.

Seasonal Decor

When described as a shape, 'wreath' is often used poetically to create imagery.

Visual Imagery

'Wreath' in literature can symbolize unity, infinity, or continuity.

Literary Metaphor

In sports and history, wreaths often represent victory or achievement.

Symbol of Victory

The laurel wreath has roots in ancient Greek traditions symbolizing triumph.

Ancient Traditions

Wreaths can be part of formal ceremonies to honor someone's success.

Formal Recognition

 The materiality and fleshiness and meat of the mushroom being explored by how it can hold up different objects being stuck into it. And after about 45 minutes, you get really intricate projects like leaves sorted by hue, so you get a color fade and put in a circle like a wreath. And the creator of this, he said, "This is fire. I call this fire."

Jay Silver: Hack a...

 And I also wanted to photograph species like the whale shark which doesn't have teeth at all or the teeth that it has are very very small. This is a plankton feeder. Not a predatory shark but the biggest fish in the ocean. This is one that I photographed in Mexico and was sort of entranced by this living wreath of bait fish

Swimming With Sharks:...

 and movement but again if you put a time-lapse camera the wreath is so big different coral colonies are fighting with each other they're moving around they're extending their polyps they're moving with the water currents they are reproducing they're migrating because they have that life history stage where they can float

Coral Reef Ocean...

 it's a cathedral entrance in a wooded hillside in the foothills of the Pyrenees. There's like a whole wreath of dangling green vines coming down, it's inviting. It wants you to come in. And so I can understand why people might've decided to go in there 14,000 years ago.

Ice Age Cave Art:...

 example and have an opportunity to talk to women on top of the capital of the united states where the the greatest form of political power in the world there is a statue and it's a woman she's called lady freedom she has in her hand a sword in one hand and a wreath of

Recruiting Women for...

 When she died, Sissy stayed with her the whole time she was dying, stayed by her grave for a day after she died, and then very carefully, they watched her take that tire, and lay it on the grave, kinda like we place a wreath. And she left it there for her friend.

Jodi Picoult: Leaving...

 and swimming directly towards that crude you have least to killer whales here you have a puffin where it was white is blind I mean it is astonishing you have oil hitting one wreath and spreading 1500 miles the

Looking for Killer...

 some of the objects are so valuable that's like what we call hand carry and that's basically the courier's handcuffed to the briefcase and escorted through security the golden wreath of

Priceless Ancient...

 so fascinating I think just because we did find the strawberry or a wreath ristic leopard as it's actually known in the scientific world the other thing I

Safari Live - Day 11 PIPE...

 They were all in a line. And there, along this line, was this thing, this glorious, bewildering thing. It looked like a wreath woven from silvery thread,