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“The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.”

Men Long Fall Animal Tree He Man Flower Solitude Speech Understood Rain Tongue Ease Perceive Rejoice Herbs Drought Shrubs

Book:The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc

Source: The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc

“If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.”

Ifs Humans Soul Earth Moving Spirit Animal Wonder Tree Figures Painting Flower Delight Painter Hills Landscape Limbs Fullness Human Soul Petals Figure Painting

Book:Works

Source: Works

“The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves are generally green; and earth-worms the colour of the earth which they inhabit; butter-flies, which frequent flowers, are coloured like them; small birds which frequent hedges have greenish backs like the leaves, and light-coloured bellies like the sky, and are hence less visible to the hawk who passes under them or over them.”

Light Earth Science Nature Natural Animal Sky Flower Bird Green Colour Visible Worms Belly Insects Prey Hawks Caterpillars

Book:The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants

Source: The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants

“It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next minute I was this raging stew of hormones. I don't know if you've ever been a raging stew of anything, but I wouldn't particularly recommend it.”

Ifs Knows Littles Moments Seems Kids Next Stuff Animal Minutes Flower Caring Rage Adolescence Little Kid Hormones Stew

Book:Sugar Rush

Source: Sugar Rush

“There are as many jealousies in life as there are different flowers or trees or animals.”

Different Animal Tree Flower Jealousy

Author:Martha Albrand

“Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. Thats it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.”

Knows Should Dies Stuff Animal Tree Flower Bird Comes And Goes

Author:Joanna Lumley

“People, houses, streets, animals, flowers-everything in Holland looks as if it were washed and ironed each night in order to glisten immaculately and newly starched the next morning.”

People Ifs Looks Night Order Next House Animal Morning Streets Flower Holland Glisten

Author:Felix Marti-Ibanez

“On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.”

Ifs Certain Animal Written Dog Flower Hair Broken Fine Pages Mad Distance Chinese Divided Pigs Brushes Fabulous Emperor Mermaid Camels Classification Encyclopedia Vases Stray Dogs

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.”

World Art Perfect Animal Flower Fine Cruelty Fine Arts Animal World

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)

“If you do not have a loving concern for the environment... it will no longer sustain you - you will not be worthy of it. You will not be destroying the planet, you see. You will not be destroying the birds, or the flowers, or the grain, or the animals... they will be destroying you.”

Ifs Animal Environment Planets Flower Bird Concern Worthy Destroying Grain Destroying You Concern For The Environment

Author:Seth

“You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it.”

Humans Human Beings Animal Feet Flower Comfort Crushed Concealed

Author:Khalil Gibran