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“We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal proportions, and devise means for maintaining the permanence of its relations to the fields, the meadows and the pastures, to the rain and the dews of heaven, to the springs and rivulets with which it waters down the earth.”

Source: So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh

“The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.”

Earth Sky Dew Gems Beads Earth And Sky

Book:Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

“Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.”

Littles Earth Fall Poor Sun Wind Rain Wander Violet Dew Sun Rise

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers, carries it to her hive; so the Priest, having taken the Saviour, God's Own Son, Who came down from Heaven, the Son of Mary, Who sprang up as earth's choicest flower, from the Altar, feeds you with that Bread of Sweetness and of all delight.”

Children Earth Heaven Taken Son Flower Delight Bread My Children Carrie Priests Mary Bees Sweetness Juice Altars Sweetest Dew Saviour Hives

Book:The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

“When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to its hive. In the same way, the priest, having taken from the altar the Son of God (who is as the dew from heaven, and true son of Mary, flower of our humanity), gives him to you as delicious food.”

“Thou slanting rain! Thou Hebe of the Skies, That pours out drink to Earth; thou faithful wife That with moist tears embraces her prone lord. Thou mist intensified; thou double dew That drowns the drought, that heals the parched and burnt -- Thou resurrection rain.”

Earth Lord Wife Sky Tears Drink Rain Embrace Heal Faithful Resurrection Mist Dew Drought Faithful Wife

Book:Cloudrifts at Twilight

Source: Cloudrifts at Twilight

“Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues That live among the clouds, and flush the air, Lingering, and deepening at the hour of dews.”

Earth Hours Air Clouds Evening Dew Hue Lingering

Author:William C. Bryant

“Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.”

World Soul God Earth Poor Lord Dear Breathe Thanks Grass Blades Dew Saviour Blades Of Grass Dear Lord

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem