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“O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!”

Earth Nature Sleep Rocks Fallen Leafs Fallen Leaves

Book:Spoon River Anthology

Source: Spoon River Anthology

“Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.”

Grows Nature Sleep Morning Mountain Green Ill Woods Mortals Knees Violet Repose Forgetfulness Squirrels Camping Wakes You

Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“It was the beginning of a day in June; the deep blue sky unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light. The streets were, as yet, nearly free from passengers, the houses and shops were closed, and the healthy air of morning fell like breath from angels, on the sleeping town.”

Light House Nature Sleep Morning Air Sky Streets Healthy Angel Towns Breaths Blue Clouds Brilliant Shops June Passengers Blue Sky

Book:The Old Curiosity Shop

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop

“The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep.”

Made Eye Lying Nature Sleep Sky Green Staring Laziness Going To Sleep Brightness

Book:Master Humphrey's Clock

Source: Master Humphrey's Clock

“Nature satisfies my thirst; it feeds my hunger; it finds me clothing; it affords me shelter; it wraps me around when I sleep with beneficent and watchful care; and it takes me at last to its great bosom, where my ashes mingle with their kindred dust.”

Care Lasts Nature Sleep Hunger Dust Take Me Clothings Shelter Ashes Thirst Wraps Find Me Bosoms Kindred

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And Nature must obey necessity.”

Night Nature Sleep Lateness

Author:William Shakespeare

“Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.”

Life Made Stills Ends Nature Sleep Creation Awful Pauses Pulse Prophetic

Book:The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author

Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author

“Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes.”

World Nature Sleep Pay Ready Sweet Tired Fortune Wretched Forsake

Author:Edward Young

“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”

Source: Selected poems

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.”

Men Philosophy Nature Sleep Wonder Land Bird Tigers Hunts Cradle Cats Cradle Bokonon

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”

Source: Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There

“Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.”

Inspirational Water Nature Sleep Inspiring Sky Cold Taste Flow Hot Blue Embrace Honey Delicious

Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.”

Thinking Heart Spiritual Nature Sleep Meditation Moon Letting Go Shadow Casts

Author:Rumi

“O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?”