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“But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places which gave them being. Here the painter feels how small things may suggest the greater - the drop of water, image the firmament.”

Feels May I Can Beautiful Water Study Greater Summer Seasons Winter Studios Spread Painter Rejoice Recalls Small Things Drop Of Water Firmament

Author:Christopher Pearse Cranch

“My untidy habits drive me to follow the slash-and-burn principle. Work on a virgin table until the mess becomes unbearable, then move on to a clean table in a clean room - or, on a beautiful summer day like this, one of the five tables dotted around the garden. Trash that table and move on again.”

Beautiful Moving Rooms Principles Five Habit Summer Garden Tables Clean Mess Virgins Trash Unbearable Summer Days Days Like This

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many of them, but the most beautiful of all was a walled garden in which every flower was blue. There were all the obvious things like delphiniums and acronitums and larkspurs, but the most beautiful blue of all came from the groups of cabbages - the ordinary blue pickling cabbage. Set against the blazing blue of the other flowers, it had a bloom and elegance which made it a thing of the greatest delight.”

“This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.”

Source: The Age of Miracles

“The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit has been ripened and their work is done. And their splendid change of coloring is but their graceful and beautiful surrender of life, when they have finished their summer offering of service to God and man.”

Men Has Beens Done Beautiful Fall Process Natural Color Summer Fruit Finished Surrender Offering Decay Splendid Frost Service To God

Author:Tryon Edwards

“Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions.”

Littles Hands Beautiful Asks Memories Thousand Summer Red Rose Dusk Crimson Little Hands Red Leaves

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“Even as late as the summer of 2006, as home prices began to fall, it took a certain kind of person to see the ugly facts and react to them-to discern, in the profile of the beautiful young lady, the face of an old witch.”

Kind Persons Facts Home Beautiful Faces Young Certain Fall Late Summer Ugly Witch Profile Young Ladies

Book:The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

“The love-making of the bluebird is as beautiful as the bird itself, and normally as gentle, unless interrupted by some jealous rival who would steal his bride; then gentleness gives place to active combat. The male usually arrives a few days ahead of the female, selects what he considers to be a suitable summer home, and carols his sweetest, most seductive notes day after day until she appears in answer to his call.”

Source: Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes

“It's hard not to fall in love with Seattle on a beautiful summer's day.”

Hard Beautiful Fall Summer Falling In Love Seattle Pacific Northwest

Author:Robert Spector

“The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.”

Kind Book Beautiful Summer Everyday Warm Everyday Life

Author:Liv Ullmann

“What philosopher of the schoolroom, with the mental dowry of four summers, ever questions the power of the wand that opened the dark eyes of the beautiful princess, or subtracts a single inch from the stride of seven leagues?”

Eye Beautiful Romance Dark Four Summer Seven Philosopher League Princess Inches Stride Wands Dowry Dark Eyes

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.”

Years Whole Lasts Beautiful Felt Sadness Duty Summer Spread Autumn Cricket Rumor Summertime Beautiful Day Whole Year

Author:E. B. White

“Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond.”

Source: Oliver Twist: Or, The Parish Boy's Progress

“Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.”

Beautiful Cold Summer Winter British Winter Cold

Author:Horace Walpole

“Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.”