Best earth & yearning Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.”

Earth Heaven Mankind Holy Rain Woods Wounds Fallen Yearning Herds Flocks Rite Wedlock Amorous Demeter

Book:Aeschylus

Source: Aeschylus

“We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.”

Love Looks Littles Earth Faces Mother Answers Yearning Mother Earth Little Women

Book:Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth”

Earth Voice Tree Window Come Up Dumb Yearning

Book:Stray Birds

Source: Stray Birds

“Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our spirit's aching need for the infinite, a hunger for more than matter can provide.”

Needs Matter Earth Spirit Offers Infinite Hunger Yearning Elegant Evoke Splendor Nameless Yearning For Something

Book:The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet

Source: The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet

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