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“Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance to believe once more than the world was beautiful and sensible, that the mad absurdities and cruelties of men were against the laws of Nature and the Universal Mind; that sooner or later violence would suffer utter defeat on this Earth. No words collected in books were more effectively convincing to me than foliage, clouds, rippling waters, rain.”

“When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.”

World Earth Water Lines Elements Ocean Eternal Lows Meetings Compromise Tides Primeval

Book:The Edge of the Sea

Source: The Edge of the Sea

“the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.”

Earth Water Fire Air Elements Islands Irresistible

Book:The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands

Source: The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands

“Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.”

Long Made Earth Fall Water Music Air Figures Fame Moon Rounds Active Graves Decent Strings Strokes Woven Tenors Saturn

Author:Abraham Cowley

“My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. They have weight, but they are light. Airy, yet substantial. Earth, air, fire, water; velvet and elastic! Meat, wheat and magic! They are our family glory!”

Light Earth Water Fire Magic Air Food Taste Glory My Family Weight Cooking Our Family Meat Dry Culinary Wet Masculine Wheat Seductive Velvet Airy Flour Stout Dumplings

Author:Robert P. T. Coffin

“Since, by your greatness, you Are nearer heaven in place; be nearer it In goodness: rich men should transcend the poor, As clouds the earth; rais'd by the comfort of The sun, to water dry and barren grounds.”

Men Should Earth Heaven Water Poor Sun Rich Greatness Comfort Goodness Clouds Dry Barren Rich Man

Author:Cyril Tourneur

“Oh! welcome to the wearied Earth The Sabbath resting comes, Gathering the sons of toil and care Back to their peaceful homes; And, like a portal to the skies, Opens the House of God, Where all who seek may come and learn The way the Saviour trod. But holier to the wanderer seems The Sabbath on the deep, When on, and on, in ceaseless course, The toiling bark must keep, And not a trace of man appears Amid the wilderness Of waters--then it comes like dove Direct from heaven to bless.”

“Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.”

Men Earth Water Air He Man Fame Mark Smoke Obtaining Foam Canopy

Author:Dante Alighieri

“Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.”

Running Earth Turns Water Sweet Drink Worship Spring Labor Down And Plant Fruit Noble Sweat Flood Toil Gardener Upside Down Food And Drink True Worship Deepness

Author:Julian of Norwich

“Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.”

Source: The Face of War

“In all the years when I did not know what to believe in and therefore preferred to leave all beliefs alone, whenever I came to a place where living water welled up, blessedly cold and sweet and pure, from the earth's dark bosom, I felt that after all it must be wrong not to believe in anything.”

Knows Years Believe Earth Belief Felt Water Dark Sweet Cold Pure Bosoms

Book:Men, women, and places

Source: Men, women, and places

“All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?”

People Earth Water Pleasure Wonder Sea Travel Track Ships Streams Up And Down

Book:Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures

Source: Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures

“It is said that angels come as thoughts, as visions, as dreams, as animals, as the light on the water or in clouds and rainbows, and as people too. Are they walking on this earth as people in disguise? Or do they appear for that one moment and vanish into ether again? Or is it really us, mere humans, who for a moment are picked up by the hand of God and made to speak unwittingly the words another needs to hear, or to hold out a life line to another soul?”

Source: A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives