"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still……" — D. H. Lawrence

"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure."

— D. H. Lawrence

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441 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence has 441 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and…
And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning…
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will…
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready.…
But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out…
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the…
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets…
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most…
That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.
Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann

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