Meadows Quotes
190 quotes by 143 authors
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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
— Georges Bernanos
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We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming…
— Henry David Thoreau
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You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only to saunter through…
— Paul of the Cross
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The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the…
— William C. Bryant
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Americans are less mystical about what produced their inland or meadow courses; they are the product of the bulldozerm rotary ploughs, mowers, sprinkler systems and…
— Alistair Cooke
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
— William C. Bryant
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Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.
— Sigurd F. Olson
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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost…
— Edward Steichen
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Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking,…
— Mark Helprin
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Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers,…
— Max Lucado
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The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
— Samuel Johnson
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While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the…
— Edward Jenner
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What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be…
— Albert Schweitzer
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It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an…
— Eva Ibbotson
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It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of…
— Francis Parkman
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Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!
— Albert Hofmann
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How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the…
— Chief Seattle
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I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's…
— Karl Kraus
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