“Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?” FirstsMayStillsSongSkyColorSpringWingsSpeedFlightSouthernChillBlastHueBluebird Book:Poetical works Source: Poetical works
“To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.” WorldLoveNeedsMayDesireStarsSkyFiguresSweetWallLoversRedRoseSnowImaginaryStrainRed RoseImaginary World Author:Williston Fish
“If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience.” IfsMayFeelingsArtistViewsSkyShapesMountainExperienceResponsePaintFinishedCanvasSoarEvoke Author:Lawren Harris
“What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball sailing up into the sky, reaching its apex, falling and finally dropping to the turf, just the way I planned it.” PeopleWayMayArtFallWhiteSkyBallsGolfFlightReachingMuseumsSailingDroppingTurfApex Author:Arnold Palmer
“The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible in them is being destroyed. How far destruction may go it is not easy to guess. Every landscape, low and high, seems doomed to be trampled and harried. Even the sky is not safe from scath-blurred and blackened whole summers together with the smoke of fires that devour the woods.” MayCountryWholeSeemsTogetherEasyFireSkySafeSummerLowsDestructionEnvironmentalWoodsDestroyedOur CountrySmokeLandscapeDoomedBoundless Book:The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails Source: The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails