“Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.” HumansChildrenYoungMotherFatherNatureBloodTaxesCradleBabe Book:Osler's Source: Osler's
“Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.” CareFallNatureCitiesBrainBloodWalkingPressureComplexesDawnReliefYellowHikingTrailsCity LifeForests And TreesWailingCoyotesNature Walk Author:Hamlin Garland
“The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.” FacesBlackNatureDarkWhiteBehindsSunFireBloodChangedRedRiversFilledWinterForestsShipsRuinsSubstanceYardsEasternMistMarshesMastsWinter Days Book:Our Mutual Friend Source: Our Mutual Friend
“When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.” EyeDiesGrowsNatureSecretSunBloodWasteLogicDawnSoilVitalityHaltThrough The EyesAllotments Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas
“Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.” LawNationsGrowsNaturePerfectViolenceBloodDivineAll ThingsMethodRoundsGrass Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.” VoiceNatureBloodCrySeparationReasonableWeepingAmerican Revolution Book:Paine: Political Writings Source: Paine: Political Writings