“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.” BeautifulMovingRoomsPrinciplesFiveHabitSummerGardenTablesCleanMessVirginsTrashUnbearableSummer DaysDays Like This Author:Richard Dawkins
“Your peaks are beautiful, ye Apennines! In the soft light of these serenest skies; From the broad highland region, black with pines, Fair as the hills of Paradise they rise, Bathed in the tint Peruvian slaves behold In rosy flushes on the virgin gold.” LightBeautifulBlackSkyFairsGoldSlaveHillsParadiseRegionsBroadsVirginsRosyPeruvians Author:William C. Bryant
“How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.” SeemsBeautifulGriefSorrowInnocenceVirginsFelicity Author:William Davenant