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“I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.”

Thinking Mind Eye Past Mother Gone Spring Crosses Edges Lovely Fleeting Luminous Cardinals

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal proportions, and devise means for maintaining the permanence of its relations to the fields, the meadows and the pastures, to the rain and the dews of heaven, to the springs and rivulets with which it waters down the earth.”

Source: So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh

“Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.”

Knows Men Long Stills Past Spring Wine Lays Alcoholism Drank

Book:The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'

Source: The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'

“Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts and granting new, The wisdom of the present hour Makes up the follies past and gone; To weakness, strength succeeds, and power From frailty springs! Press on, press on!”

Ifs Play Past Hours Gone Tomorrow Succeed Spring Weakness Presses Fortune Being True Thee Folly Frailty

Author:Benjamin

“We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.”

Needs Past Order Feet Rocks Spring

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“O thou, whose days are yet all spring, Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving; Experience is a dumb, dead thing; The victory's in believing.”

Believe Past Belief Victory Spring Dumb

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.”

Whole Past Spring Remembered Remembrance Present Time Blossoming

Book:Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the Past Edition : with Elucidations

Source: Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the Past Edition : with Elucidations

“What change has made the pastures sweet And reached the daisies at my feet, And cloud that wears a golden hem? This lovely world, the hills, the sward-- They all look fresh, as if our Lord But yesterday had finished them.”

Ifs World Looks Made Past Lord Feet Sweet Spring Clouds Finished Yesterday Lovely Golden Hills Our Lord Daisies Pastures Hem

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.”

Earth Past Air Spring Smell Hung Hints Lilac Wisps

Book:Experiment in Springtime: A Novel

Source: Experiment in Springtime: A Novel

“Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in the past or in the future; it may preach 'back to nature' or 'forward to a world of love and beauty'; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell - that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.”

Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies