Addresses Quote by Elizabeth Spires

“Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.”

— W. H. Auden

“But here Nature fulfilled her want of speech and spoke fr her. The murmur of the brook, the voice of the village folk, the…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

“As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of the strangest…

— Virginia Woolf

“Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her. The birds with their plumage and their notes are in harmony with the flowers, but what…

— Henry David Thoreau

“He’s focused on something—or someone—over her shoulder. The harmonious warbling of the rainforest morphs into organized disarray, as if a primitive maestro has thrown…

— Laura Kreitzer

“This time of year, the purple blooms were busy with life- not just the bees, but butterflies and ladybugs, skippers and emerald-toned beetles, flitting…

— Susan Wiggs

“When you walk along a wooded path In the nature my heart held so dear, Remember the joy that it gave me And know…

— Kris Nelson

“She'd loved birds long before her physical limitations kept her grounded. She'd found a birding diary of her grandmother's in a trunk in the…

— Tracy Guzeman

“Stray birds of the summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter…

— Tagore Rabindranath

When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and…

— Tom Robbins

“Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the…

— William Ellery Channing