The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Man has made such a mighty struggle to feel at home on the face of the earth, without even yet succeeding.” — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“But then he didn't want to remember, because she had been nothing to him then, and his nature revolted from remembering her… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image