“The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.” StillsBeautifulYoungLife IsGrowsSidesImagineFailingTreeFlowerTasteFutureDegreesWasteFruitDisappearAdmireOpeningDesertButterflyPausesLife Is LikeLanesBleakTemptingYoung LifeBeautiful Butterfly Author:George Augustus Henry Sala
“... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.” PeopleWorldWayGivingLooksBeautifulAttentionImagineStrangeFlowerMicroscopes Author:Kate DiCamillo
“Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed, The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more Than a delight measure or a dance; For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.” MenWayLooksSoulLightLyingImaginationStepsImagineHe ManFlowerSorrowMusicianSingingBirdFairsDearDelightGrassBitesSinging Birds Book:King Richard II: Third Series Source: King Richard II: Third Series
“If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling.” IfsGivingShouldWellsMayStatesFeelingsHeavenSunImagineTreeObjectsSweetFlowerEternalBlessedShiningFruitGoldenSilverOrangeLoadedMetaphoricalGroveFruitionAllusion Author:Humphry Davy
“Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?” UniverseSpeakImagineFlowerElementsGrassSailingBladesBudBlades Of Grass Author:Victor Hugo
“Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost anything at all, a cornstalk, or a giant redwood, or a flight across the ocean. Whatever a man imagines, he can achieve.” MenFirstsIdeasHandsGrowsImagineAchieveFlowerOceanSeedsFlightGiantsInsignificantRedwoods Book:The Spirit of St. Louis Source: The Spirit of St. Louis