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“Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.”

Ifs Made Shows Eye Water Nature Animal Sky Events Fields Color Blue Green Paint Vegetables Vary Superfluous Minerals Hue

Author:Leigh Hunt

“human names for natural things are superfluous. Nature herself does not name them. The important thing is to know this flower, look at its color until the blueness becomes as real as a keynote of music.”

Knows Humans Looks Doe Important Real Names Nature Natural Color Flower Important Things Superfluous Natural Things

Book:Home to the wilderness: a personal journey

Source: Home to the wilderness: a personal journey

“Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in contrasting tints by way of expression, and you will seldom see two sides of a leaf of the same hue, and the leaf stem frequently gives a good dash of bronze or purple.”

Knows Way Giving Two Sides Nature Color Expression Green Stem Leafs Purple Two Sides Monotonous Hue Palette Bronze

Author:Mabel Osgood Wright

“As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame”

Nature Fire Color Draws Flames Dragonflies

Book:Hopkins: The Mystic Poets

Source: Hopkins: The Mystic Poets

“A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.”

Knows Made Dream Seems Courses Lost Nature Dark Sun Tree Color Wind Bird Rain Roots Presses Clouds Warm Storm Rising Soil Afternoon Juice Nests Plunge Tranquil Sap Elementals Fermentation

Author:Jacques Roumain

“The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.”

Kind Form Nature Natural Consciousness Color Delight Scent Suspended Intoxication Natural Things Hamper

Author:Mary Augusta Ward

“Colors are the smiles of nature.”

Nature Color Smile

Book:The Seer

Source: The Seer

“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.”

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.”

Source: Letters

“Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.”

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”

Ifs Thinking God Religion Nature Religious Walks Inspiring Fields Color Appreciation Colour Godly Purple Gratitude For Work Pleasing God Work Appreciation Friend Appreciation

Book:Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism

Source: Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism