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“The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing”

Life Dream Light Life Is Lying Religion Tree Rivers Staring

Book:Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion of organic diversity in our tough and constantly stressful world. And if we do not grasp the fundamental nature of branching as the key to life's passage across the geological stage, we will never understand evolution aright.”

Source: I Have Landed: Splashes and Reflections in Natural History

“Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.”

May Sometimes Lying Humanity Individual Tree Capable

Book:D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)

Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)

“Much of the beauty of Christmas lies in its challenge to look further, deeper, until we find its secret in the heart of God. But we never find that unless we look beyond the presents under the tree.”

Looks Heart Lying Challenges Secret Tree Deeper Christmas

Book:A Happy Trails Christmas

Source: A Happy Trails Christmas

“I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the dream”

Knows Needs Dream Lying Heaven Tree Climbing Climbing To The Top

Author:Traci Lords

“Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in the Arctic Circle and in the balmiest tropics; it also grows on the fur of sloths, on the backs of snails, on decaying human bones. ... It is a resurrection engine. A single clump of mosses can lie dormant and dry for forty years at a stretch, and then vault back again into life with a mere soaking of water.”

Source: The Signature of All Things

“The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.”

Ifs Men Made Age Death Lying Grows Tree Fronts Return Spring Stones Remains Winter Fades Wrinkles Insensible

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals. Stand still like a fat budding tree, like a stalk of corn athrob and aglisten in the heat. Lie like a mare panting with the dancing feet of colts against her sides. Sleep at night as the spring earth. Walk heavily as a wheat stalk at its full time bending towards the earth waiting for the reaper. Let your life swell downward so you become like a vase, a vessel. Let the unknown child knock and knock against you and rise like a dolphin within.”