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“In a meadow full of flowers you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry of life.”

Walks Support Color Flower Angry Smell Breathe Meadows

Author:Jonas Mekas

“You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under a tree; you watch and wait. At first there is nothing much to be seen. Nature looks like a whitish canvas with a few broad outlines faintly sketched in; all is misty, everything quivers in the cool dawn breeze. The sky lights up. The sun has not yet burst through the gauze veil that hides the meadow, the little valley, the hill on the horizon... Ah, a first ray of sunshine!”

“Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.”

Children Running Water Sleep Morning Laughing Sun Tree Feet Rain Shoes Grass Remove Shade Invites Wet Dew Meadows Puddles Bare Feet

Author:Maria Montessori

“Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's Lace.”

Ifs Looks Standing Grass Queens Lawns Meadows Lace Clovers

Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

“Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by babbling brooks and shady woods - in short, a machine that will discriminately select its subject and, by means of a skillful arrangement of springs and screws, compose its motif, expose the plate, develop, print, and even mount and frame the result of its excursion, so that there will be nothing for us to do but to send it to the Royal Photographic Society's exhibition and gratefully to receive the 'Royal Medal'.”

“Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.”

Doe Hope Walks Meadows Flowering

Author:Robert Breault

“The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation.”

Way Looks Would Be Death Fall Sides Cutting Generations Missing One Day Blow Obvious Clever Slaughter Meadows

Author:Alphonse Daudet

“The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened into a little trouty pool, then ran on through water meadows over graveled shallows into Fakenham [England], where it slowed and deepened, gathering strength for the long drifts across muddy flatlands to Norwich and the North Sea.”

Littles Long Real Water Sea Rivers England Bottom Ran Pool Gathering Brooks Meadows Mills Muddy Norwich North Sea

Author:Jonathan Raban

“The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them. On the one side, we over-intellectualize everything; on the other hand, we are over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb, but the danger of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious.”

“Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.”

Stills Earth Nature Lovers Mountain Green Woods Meadows Green Earth

Author:William Wordsworth

“How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.”

Heart Nature Views Childhood My Heart Scene Dear Spots Recalls Recollection Infancy Meadows Tangled Orchard

Author:Samuel Woodworth

“Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all the body cells back into rhythm. Ten to twenty miles on a trail puts one to bed with his cares unraveled.”

Body Seems Care Form Nature Exercise Healthy Bed Ten Rivers Twenties Bottom Miles Rhythm Cells Hiking Trails Meadows Ridges

Author:William O. Douglas