Meadows Quotes
190 quotes by 142 authors
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You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under…
— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
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Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when…
— Henry David Thoreau
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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…
— Maria Montessori
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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…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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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…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's Lace.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by…
— Edward Steichen
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Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.
— Robert Breault
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The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be…
— Alphonse Daudet
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The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened…
— Jonathan Raban
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Nature is our friend - trees, squirrels, grass, fields, meadows, oceans - without people. Hike. Walk. Stroll. Bike. Swim. Be in a still place and…
— Frederick Lenz
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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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Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.
— William Wordsworth
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How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood,…
— Samuel Woodworth
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Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all…
— William O. Douglas
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I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal…
— George Perkins Marsh
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All Thy works with joy surround Thee, God of glory, Lord of Love; Stars and angels sing around Thee, Center of unbroken praise. Field and…
— Henry Van Dyke
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And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way--…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who Wrote These Meadows Quotes
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