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“Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.”

Men Sun Tree Land Wind Universal Blessed Casts Seeds Soil Rooted Beam Emigration

Author:Robert Southey

“The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time, but ... In the long secret dust of ages, beneath a blue forgotten sky, where trade winds caress the sun bleached shores of unknown realms ... See, as much as there are words in poetry, there is a poetry in words. Use it, stay faithful to the path you have set your heart upon and follow it.”

Giving Writing Heart Long Use Age Young Secret Sun Path Sky Advice Wind Blue Trade Paint Forgotten Dust Faithful Realms Shore Once Upon A Time Caress Young Writers

Author:Brian Jacques

“Talking nice about sun and wind and green jobs is just greenwash.”

Jobs Talking Sun Nice Wind Green

Author:James Hansen

“I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair.”

Thinking Has Beens Nature Morning Sun Fire Wind Flower Hair Summer Silver Autumn Yellow Butterfly Mist Meadows Yellow Leaves Morning Mist

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my fancy. Every rotation powers my traveling machine toward yet another date with destiny. The breeze clears my senses. The wind blows away my troubles. The sun shines upon my future. Spinning spokes create flashing metal upon an endless path-cycling feels like an infinite spiritual rush. It cleanses my mind. All my troubles fade into joy.”

“Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.”

Littles Earth Fall Poor Sun Wind Rain Wander Violet Dew Sun Rise

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.”

Water Sun Wind Quiet Shore

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

“Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart pulsing like ours. He was poured from the same first fountain. And whether he at last goes to our stingy Heaven or not, he has terrestrial immortality. His life, not long, not short, knows no beginning , no ending. To him life unstinted, unplanned, is above the accidents of time, and his years, markless and boundless, equal eternity.”

Knows Years Firsts Heart Long Made Lasts Turns Heaven Water Sun Sky Adventure Wind Bears Drink Equal Eternity Blue Breathe Accidents Dust Immortality Fountain Dwelling Boundless Blue Sky Stingy

Author:John Muir

“Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth was dancing with the cranes, and the low sun, and the wind and sky.”

Earth Water Sun Magic Sky Wind Lows Bird Dancing Grass Shallow Mystic Marshes Cranes Shallow Water

Book:The Yearling

Source: The Yearling

“Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.”

Sun Wind Rain Crosses Seasons Seeds Cosmic Secrecy Creeks

Book:Cross Creek

Source: Cross Creek

“The snow, the wind, the sun and the sounds of nature, can all be reminders to you that you're an integral part of the natural world.”

World Inspirational Sound Nature Natural Sun Wind Snow Reminders Natural World

Book:The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

Source: The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky. Crop after crop failed. Again and again the barren land must be mortgaged for taxes and food and next year's seed. The agony of hope ended when there was not harvest and no more credit, no money to pay interest and taxes; the banker took the land. Then the bank failed.”

Years Next Interest Pay Sun Sky Land Wind Taxes Summer Credit Seeds Dust Yellow Agony Again And Again Harvest Crops Bankers Next Year No Money Barren Prairie Scorching

Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.”

May Eye Night Sides Watches Sun Dog Wind Bears Rain Blue Miles Over You Trails Fourteen Owl Reverie Lonesome Dazzle Ridges Campfire Rattlesnakes Potholes

Author:Edward Abbey

“A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems motionless, curled in upon itself like a snake in the sun. It can vanish like smoke before the wind. Linger like perfume in the nose. Change with every telling, yet always remain the same.”

Stories Seems Moving Sun Wind Passing Passings Smoke Noses Bees Snakes Perfume

Book:The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of

Source: The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of

“Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.”

Sun Air Blood Wind Climate Clouds Weather Ice Desert Dry Sand Blinded Ivory Frigid Thin Air Sand Dunes

Author:Marge Piercy

“Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.”

Earth Energy Sun Forever Wind Amount Built Fuel Carbon Infrastructure Limitless Alternative Energy

Book:Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis

Source: Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis

“Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer comes serenely on; Earth, air, and sun and skies combine To promise all that's kind and fair: But thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, contain thyself, and bear.”

Humans Heart Kind Stills Earth Sun Gone Air Sky Mines Wind Bears Promise Summer Rain Fairs East Planes Leafs Human Heart Thyself Lofty Frost Zephyr

Book:Poems: With a Memoir

Source: Poems: With a Memoir

“I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.”

Thinking Children Darkness Sun Wind Listening Useless Looking Down Apaches

Author:Geronimo

“I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.”

People Wells I Can Feelings Speak Sleep Sun Tree Wind Glad Indian Babe Good Feeling Sleep Well Apaches

Author:Geronimo

“I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.”

Light Born Freedom Break Sun Wind Native Native American Break Up Prairie Native America Great Native American Native American Earth Enclosure Apaches

Author:Geronimo

“I am a being of Heaven and Earth,of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies, of the suns and the stars and the void through which they travel. The essence of nature, eternal, divine that all men seek to know to hear, known as the great illusion time, and the all-prevailing atmosphere. And now you know my background.”

Knows Men Earth Heaven Known Sun Divine Wind Eternal Illusion Rain Essence Backgrounds Atmosphere Void Lightning Galaxy Thunder Heaven And Earth Prevailing Thunder And Lightning

Author:Eden Ahbez

“If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant we ran rather than loitered.”

Ifs Poor Poverty Sun Wind Clothes Winter Ran Our Family Torn Overcoat

Book:A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

Source: A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

“Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, See how these names are fêted in the waving grass And by the streamers of the white cloud And whispers of the wind in the listening sky. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.”

Heart Names Left Born White Sun Fire Air Sky Fields Wind Listening Highest Clouds Snow Grass Honour Centre Vivid White Clouds

Author:Stephen Spender

“The transition from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and geothermal energy is well under way. In the old economy, energy was produced by burning something - oil, coal, or natural gas - leading to the carbon emissions that have come to define our economy. The new energy economy harnesses the energy in wind, the energy coming from the sun, and heat from within the earth itself.”

“Sometimes I feel like a tree on a hill, at the place where all the wind blows and the hail hits the tree the hardest. All the people I love are down the side aways, sheltered under a great rock, and I am out of the fold, standing alone in the sun and the snow. I feel like I am not part of the rest somehow, although they welcome me and are kind. I see my family as they sit together and it is like they have a certain way between them that is beyond me. I wonder if other folks ever feel included yet alone.”

People Ifs Way Feels Kind Sometimes Together Certain Sides Wonder Sun Tree Rocks Wind Standing My Family Folks Blow Snow Hardest Welcome Hills Folds Hail Standing Alone

Author:Nancy E. Turner

“Ah, passing few are they who speak, Wild, stormy month! in praise of thee; Yet though thy winds are loud and bleak, Thou art a welcome month to me. For thou, to northern lands, again The glad and glorious sun dost bring, And thou hast joined the gentle train And wear'st the gentle name of Spring.”

Art Names Speak Sun Land Wind Months Spring Praise Train Glad Passing Passings Welcome Thee Loud Gentle Glorious March Bleak Stormy

Author:William C. Bryant

“I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the solar system, sendin' out beams of power and wisdom and law and order, and justice and injustice, and money and oratory, and talk and talk, and wind and everything, to the uttermost points of our vast possessions, and from them clear to the ends of the earth.”

Ends Country Wanted Earth Law Order Justice Sun Clear Wind Civilization Injustice Possession Our Country Beam Law And Order Solar System Capitol Oratory Justice And Injustice

Author:Marietta Holley

“God is a God of galaxies, of storms, of roaring seas and boiling thunder, but He is also the God of bread baking, of a child's smile, of dust motes in the sun. He is who He is, and always shall be. Look around you now. He is speaking always and everywhere. His personality can be seen and known and leaned upon. The sun is belching flares while mountains scrape our sky while ants are milking aphids on their colonial leaves and dolphins are laughing in the surf and wheat is rippling and wind is whipping and a boy is looking into the eyes of a girl and mortals are dying.”

Source: Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

“They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation. Such vitality.”

Whole Sun Sea Wind Concepts Paint Colour Warmth Boots Vitality Stimulation Moors Warmth Of The Sun

Author:Rosamunde Pilcher

“There is no need for nuclear. The world can be powered by wind, water and sun alone.”

World Needs Water Sun Wind Nuclear

Author:Mark Z. Jacobson

“Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawless and sure. My eyes welling with tears, I vowed never to transgress this eternal law again. Like a tree I would be blasted by wind, struck by sun and rain, and would wait with confidence; the long-desired hour of flowering and fruit would come.”

Men Long Doe Would Be Eye Law Waiting Hours Sun Tree Tears Wind Eternal Rain Fruit Uncertain Flowering Flawless Sun And Rain

Book:Report to Greco

Source: Report to Greco

“Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwonted circumstance, of any kind, to heighten its effect.”

Firsts Kind House Sun Saws Pieces Subjects Effects Wind Circumstances Rain Awful Conventional Lightning Thunder Surroundings Acquaintance Daylight Spooky

Book:Ghost stories

Source: Ghost stories

“Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying, Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now, Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, My heart remembers how!”

Heart Remember Sun Cry Wind My Heart Rain Blow Flying Graves Weather Martyr Moors

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.”

Men Made Water Nature Sun Wind Delight One Man

Author:Ovid

“Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.”

Faces Sun Wind Labor

Author:Samuel Johnson

“A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.”

Knows Made Dream Seems Courses Lost Nature Dark Sun Tree Color Wind Bird Rain Roots Presses Clouds Warm Storm Rising Soil Afternoon Juice Nests Plunge Tranquil Sap Elementals Fermentation

Author:Jacques Roumain

“The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.”

Mind Firsts Night Stars Grows Nature Education Sun Influence Wind Importance Blow Grass Sunset

Book:Nature and Other Essays

Source: Nature and Other Essays

“Our glories float between the earth and heaven Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun, And are the playthings of the casual wind.”

Seems Earth Heaven Sun Wind Glory Clouds Floats Casual

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“what if a much of a which of a wind gives the truth to summer's lie; bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun and yanks immortal stars awry?”

Ifs Giving Lying Stars Sun Wind Summer Immortal Autumn What If

Book:100 Selected Poems

Source: 100 Selected Poems

“Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams Driving back shadows over low'ring hills. Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.”

Love Should Sun Wind Ten Lows Draws Shadow Wings Driving Rings Hills Faster Beam Dove Cupid Nimble

Book:Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Pleasure is wild and sweet. She likes purple flowers. She loves the sun and the wind and the night sky. She carries a silver bowl full of liquid moonlight. She has a cat named Midnight with stars on his paws. Many people mistrust Pleasure, and even more misunderstand her. For a long time I could barely stand to be in ...the same room with her.”

People Long Night Stars Pleasure Rooms Sun Sky Sweet Wind Flower Long Time Cat Likes Silver Carrie Bowls Midnight Purple Moonlight Liquid Night Sky Mistrust Paws

Author:J. Ruth Gendler

“Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame. With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine.”

Earth Left Sun Fire Blood Wind Summer Mouths Red Wine Shining Lips Cups Grass Ran Flames Print Lions Eastern Drank Bosoms Poppies Flapping

Book:God: thoughts in an age of uncertainty

Source: God: thoughts in an age of uncertainty

“Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it; it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches.”

Firsts Light Can Do Common Sun Effects Planets Wind Shadow Forests Complexity Branches Obscure

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“All four winds together can't bring the world to me Shadows cast a play of light, so much I want to see Chase the sun around the world, I want to look at life-In the Available Light. I'll go with the wind, I'll stand in the light.”

World Want Looks Play Light Together Sun Four Wind Shadow Casts Available Around The World

Author:Neil Peart

“There should be intensive research of all forms of clean energy - sun power, wind power, water power including wave power. In some places thermal energy is available. I stayed on a ranch which, with solar panels and two windmills, provided its own energy.”

Should Two Form Energy Water Sun Wind Research Clean Including Wave Available Clean Energy Windmills Solar Panels Wind Power Thermal Water Power

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Your seed has been covered with so many layers of culture, etiquitte, education, religion, country, that you have completely forgotten that you are here to grow, that you have become a lush green bush full of flowers, fragrance, dancing in the wind and in the rain and in the sun.”

Has Beens Country Culture Grows Sun Wind Flower Rain Green Dancing Forgotten Seeds Covered Layers Fragrance Lush

Author:Rajneesh

“Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to teem the many-voyaged main And fruitful lands- for all of living things Through thee alone are evermore conceived, Through thee are risen to visit the great sun- Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on, Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away, For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers, For thee waters of the unvexed deep Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky Glow with diffused radiance for thee!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)

“Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with color, sound, taste, and texture. If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. He cannot refuse, then, to participate. The logic of events always gives way to the logic of the senses.”

“Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him?”

Men Mind Night Values Stars Grows Sun Wind Men And Women Blow Settling Grass Sunset Scholar

Book:Essays, lectures and orations

Source: Essays, lectures and orations

“Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.”

Men Littles Light Earth Universe Force Bits Black White Animal Sun Fire Sea Wind Moon Little Bit Connected Dust Swimming Cosmic Salt Good And Bad Men Women Black Or White Polarity

Author:Suzy Kassem