“Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory.” ThinkingWorldShouldMindUseEarthValuesHeavenEasyDifficultWealthSunAirSeaGloryFairsEnvironmentalPleasantGloriousSensibleProfitableGiverDelighted Book:Centuries of Meditations Source: Centuries of Meditations
“The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.” ShouldImmortalEverlastingCornWheat Author:Thomas Traherne
“Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?” WorldShouldBookWholeMysteryChildhoodStrangeWhole WorldInfantHeirs Book:Centuries of Meditations Source: Centuries of Meditations
“A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.” WorldShouldSpiritReligionSpiritualityMinesStrangeGloryFairsStrangerTreasureGardeningStrange Things Author:Thomas Traherne
