Meadows Quotes - Page 9

• The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Tree, Generations

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Rainbow”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• If on creation's morn the king of heaven
  To shrubs and flowers a sovereign lord had given,
  O beauteous rose, he had anointed thee
  Of shrubs and flowers the sovereign lord to be;
  The spotless emblem of unsullied truth,
  The smile of beauty and the glow of youth,
  The garden's pride, the grace of vernal bowers,
  The blush of meadows, and the eye of flowers.

  Henry George Bohn

  Kings, Flower, Eye

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• Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts,
  By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell;
  Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants,
  And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.

  Tobias Smollett

  Country, Cells, Mountain

  Tobias Smollett (1806). “The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D.”, p.512

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• Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Village Life, Forests, Wilderness

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.414, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.

  Maria Montessori

  Running, Morning, Children

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• The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its sombre boughs and cries, 'Thou art my sun.' And the little meadow violet lifts its cup of blue, and whispers with its perfumed breath, 'Thou art my sun.' And the grain in a thousand fields rustles in the wind, and makes answer, 'Thou art my sun.' So God sits effulgent in heaven, not for a favored few, but for the universe of life; and there is no creature so poor or so low that he may not look up with childish confidence and say, 'My Father, Thou art mine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Lonely, Art

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• Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Night, Numbers, Space

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.180

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• The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before

  Johnny Mercer

  Running, Children, Wine

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• Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.

  Sarah Helen Whitman

  Yellow, Shadow, Slumber

  Sarah Helen Whitman (1853). “Poems”, p.61

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• Boy, you're like a horse.
  Just now sated with seed,
  You've come back to my stable,
  Yearning for a good rider, fine meadow,
  An icy spring, shady groves.

  Theognis of Megara

  Horse, Spring, Boys

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• But private lands development around the periphery of the parks - Grand Teton and Yellowstone - is a crucial issue because if those private lands are transformed from open pastures, meadow, forest land to suburbs, to little ranchettes, to shopping malls, to roads, to Starbucks - if those places are all settled for the benefit of humans, then the elk are not going to be able to migrate in and out of Yellowstone Park anymore. And if the elk can't migrate into the park, then that creates problems for the wolves, for the grizzlies, for a lot of other creatures.

  David Quammen

  Issues, Yellowstone, Land

  "< Is Yellowstone National Park In Danger Of Being 'Loved To Death'?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 18, 2016.

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• Up here (on the North Shore of Minnesota) on the land we have two communication portals, and a Lemurian portal straight out from the house, and then a big stargate has just recently opened up in our meadow.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Communication, Land, Two

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a meadow, and I offered the tuning meditation and they did it.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Meditation, Michigan, Tuning

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• If you are a Jewish Israeli, you go to Gaza, you get the villa of your life, the villa which you did not dream of ever getting in Israel, a beautiful two-story villa with green meadows and so on, practically for nothing. Then you put up hothouses of tomatoes or flowers; you take the very Arabs from whom you grabbed this land and employ them as laborers in your hothouses. Israeli law does not apply in Gaza: There is no minimum wage, no annual vacation, no compensation for dismissal - so you get the work very, very cheap. It is a wonderful setup economically.

  Uri Avnery

  Beautiful, Dream, Flower

  Source: progressive.org

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• Detroit right now is virtually abandoned at its core to the degree that a lot of what had been slums thirty years ago are now wildflower meadows. The rebuilding of Detroit will occur a much smaller scale. It remains to be seen what will become of Detroit's vast suburbs.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Years, Degrees, Wildflowers

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• As you walk through forests or the meadows of your mind, Stop and talk to those you fear Good friendships you may find

  Stephen Cosgrove

  Mind, May, Good Friendship

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• I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this.

  William Boyd

  Common Humanity, Kitchen, Spy

  William Boyd (2009). “Restless”, p.278, A&C Black

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• I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Night, Corn

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.402, Penguin

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• Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.

  Aimee Bender

  Writing, Feelings, Lovely

  "Why the best way to get creative is to make some rules" by Aimee Bender, www.cnn.com. July 31, 2012.

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• The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.

  Anna Sewell

  Book, Water Lily, Tree

  Anna Sewell (2012). “Black Beauty”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Scholars may quote Plato in studies, but the hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength from its inspiration, as the meadows draw it from the brook.

  Moncure D. Conway

  Bible, Plato, Inspiration

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• August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.

  Jean Hersey

  Weed, Sweet, Garden

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• The summer lasted a long long time, like verse after verse of a ballad, but when it ended, it ended like a man falling dead in the street of heart trouble. One night, all in one night, severe winter came, a white horse of snow rolling over Bountiful, snorting and rolling in its meadows, its fields.

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Summer, Horse, Fall

  Ardyth Kennelly (1949). “The Peaceable Kingdom”

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• The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on every leaf as it trembled in the gentle air: and the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were a fountain of inspiration to them.

  Charles Dickens

  Sweet, Morning, Nature

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.52

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• A tranquil summer sunset shone upon him as he approached the end of his walk, and passed through the meadows by the river side. He had that sense of peace, and of being lightened of a weight of care, which country quiet awakens in the breasts of dwellers in towns.

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Country, Nature

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Little Dorrit”, p.318, Kartindo.com

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