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Atmosphere Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but…
- Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
- My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it,…
- So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we…
- All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere…
- A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must…
- It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think…
- The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an…
- My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest…
- I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion…
More Atmosphere Quotes
- I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough
- A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. — Walter Bagehot
- In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere… — Charles Baudelaire
- As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage… — John Desmond Bernal
- A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the whole country… — Andrea Bocelli
- On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We… — Alain de Botton
- When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is… — Gwendolyn Brooks
- I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because,… — Madeleine Albright
- Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler
- The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates… — Alexis Carrel
- If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And… — Winston Churchill