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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

“If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.”

Ifs Light Wish Sun Rights Tree Flower Forests Trust In God Perfume Commitment To God

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.”

Running Earth Voice Sun Tree Bird Hot Environmental Cooling Mead Grasshoppers Hot Sun

Author:John Keats

“The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.”

Men Children Doe Ends Joy Sun Tree Sea Return Lifts Anguish Renewal Lofty Coconuts Cyclones

Author:Paul Gauguin

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,-a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.‎”

Source: John Muir: Nature Writings

“The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead.”

Suffering Love Is Behinds Sun Tree Eating Window Horse Green Mere Innocent Opening Banality Auden

Book:In Sierra Leone

Source: In Sierra Leone

“HOLLY TREE (Ilex aquifolium) is a symbol of good will and is associated with sun gods. In Rome the holly was sacred to Saturn and was employed in the rites of the Saturnalia, where it was a symbol of health and happiness. The holly is an evergreen and therefore is associated with the sun god.”

Sun Tree Sacred Symbols Rome Employed Good Will Rite Hollies Saturn Evergreens Sun God

Author:Raven Grimassi

“Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.”

Mean Bits Sun Tree Blue Shining Awful Los Angeles Palms Vicious Sydney Sun Shines Palm Trees

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“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

“Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.”

Ifs Thinking Men Years Stills Earth Faces Water Common Sun Mystery Tree Green Shining Fingers Depth Lakes Quarters Mud Limbs Skeletons Muddy Sun Shines Slime Cypresses Cypress Trees

Author:Irvin S. Cobb

“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

“Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.”

Earth Stars Watches Sun Growing Tree Movement Creation Planets Activity Ocean Streams Unending Growing Tree

Author:Maria Montessori

“Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun, Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze, And shot towards heaven.”

Looks Hands Earth Father Heaven Sun Tree Shots Fairs Green Rose Naked Roof Breeze Columns Green Leaves

Author:William C. Bryant

“I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead.”

Feels Young Sun Tree Strange Roots Skins Ancient Forests Giants Branches Rough Smooth Unseen Intuitive Bark Sap Overhead Saplings Smooth Skin

Author:Jane Goodall

“Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals. Stand still like a fat budding tree, like a stalk of corn athrob and aglisten in the heat. Lie like a mare panting with the dancing feet of colts against her sides. Sleep at night as the spring earth. Walk heavily as a wheat stalk at its full time bending towards the earth waiting for the reaper. Let your life swell downward so you become like a vase, a vessel. Let the unknown child knock and knock against you and rise like a dolphin within.”

“Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare.”

World Poetry Literature Sun Growing Tree Color Flower Honor Shapes Deserve England Rose Plant Come Up Seeds Soil Offspring Sowing Eldest Persia Fruitfulness Hafiz Plants Growing

Author:Robert Aris Willmott

“You are immortal; you exist for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die. You are in the trees, the butterflies, the fish, the air, the moon, the sun. Wherever you go, you are there, waiting for yourself.”

Life Years Different Dies Waiting Sun Air Tree Moon Fishes Billions Manifestation Immortal Butterfly

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.”

Feels Looks Said House Sun Tree Middle Mirrors Woods Heat Small Parts Sun Rise Chopping

Author:Pete Seeger

“Nature is a tenacious recycler, every dung heap and fallen redwood tree a bustling community of saprophytes wresting life from the dead and discarded, as though intuitively aware that there is nothing new under the sun. Throughout the physical world, from the cosmic to the subatomic, the same refrain resounds. Conservation: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.”

World Ideas Law Nature Community Sun Tree Fallen Cosmic Good Ideas Conservation Refrain Discarded Nothing New Tenacious Redwoods Nothing New Under The Sun

Book:The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

Source: The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

“November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.”

Running Behinds Morning Sun Tree Wall Red Stones Rising Silver Gray Chill November Cardinals Squirrels Stone Walls Scallops

Book:The Shape of a Year

Source: The Shape of a Year

“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

“No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man”

Men Mean Persons Soul Running Sun Tree Flower Periods Solitude Streams Starks Sullen Turf Sentinels

Book:The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909

Source: The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909

“He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.”

Source: THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens

“Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.”

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous

“Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.”

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee.”

“When we suddenly awake to the realization that there is no barrier, and never has been, one realizes that one is all things mountains, rivers, grasses, trees, sun, moon, stars, universe are all oneself. There is no longer a division or barrier between myself and others, no longer any feeling of alienation or fear there is nothing apart from oneself and therefore nothing to fear. Realizing this results in true compassion. Other people and things are not seen as apart from oneself but, on the contrary, as one's own body.”

People Has Beens Feelings Body Universe Stars Realizing Results Compassion Sun Tree Moon Mountain All Things Rivers Oneself Contrary Realization Grass Awake Barriers Division Alienation Sun Moon

Author:Bruce Lee

“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

“Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.”

Sun Tree Feet Humility Pride Strikes Cease Firm Towers

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Trees which grow in places facing the course of the sun are not of porous fiber but are solid, being drained by the dryness... The trees in sunny neighborhoods, therefore, being solidified by the compact texture of their fiber, and not being porous from moisture, are very useful, so far as durability goes, when they are hewn into timber. The lowland firs, being conveyed from sunny places, are better than those highland firs, which are brought here from shady places.”

Courses Grows Sun Tree Neighborhood Texture Sunny Fiber Compact Drained Shady Timber Moisture Durability

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.”

Men Children Earth Water Sun Tree Flower Creatures Bird All Things Stones Relation Finals Fishes Cosmos Fishing Rainbow Insects

Book:Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

“If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling.”

Ifs Giving Should Wells May States Feelings Heaven Sun Imagine Tree Objects Sweet Flower Eternal Blessed Shining Fruit Golden Silver Orange Loaded Metaphorical Grove Fruition Allusion

Author:Humphry Davy

“The Sun has no chance to be nobody and that is the punishment for being a sun! If you can be nobody just like a humble tree in a silent forest, you can find the happiness too!”

Ifs Happiness Chance Sun Tree Silent Humble Punishment Forests

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Observe the life like a wise tree by the side of a calm lake! Do not move; just sit and observe! Observe the Sun, observe the storms; observe the wisdom, observe the stupidities!”

Life Moving Sides Sun Wise Tree Calm Stupidity Storm Lakes

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, "Emo, don't go near the cellar door!" One day when they were away, I went up to the cellar door. And I pushed it and walked through and saw strange, wonderful things, things I had never seen before, like... trees. Grass. Flowers. The sun... that was nice... the sun.”

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Author:Emo Philips

“Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun.”

Body Light Earth Spiritual Darkness Sun Fire Tree Stones Pot Organs Grain Burned Straws Brahman

Author:Adi Shankara

“Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.”

Giving Children Stars Black Sun Tree Creation Birth Mountain All Things Fishes Holes Snow Galaxy Whales Black Hole Lava Microorganisms

Author:Matthew Fox

“Without trees, mountains, fogs or rains, the Sun cannot create its own magic!”

Sun Magic Tree Mountain Rain Fog

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness. If you do, you will fall into a neutral kind of emptiness. Emptiness includes the sun, moon, stars, and planets, the great earth, mountains and rivers, all trees and grasses, bad people and good people, bad things and good things, heaven and hell; they are all in the midst of emptiness. The emptiness of human nature is also like this.”

Source: The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

“What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days, in which the evening and morning were named, were without sun, moon and stars? What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in Paradise, in Eden, Like a Husbandman?”

Men Firsts Found Stars Morning Sun Tree Moon Thirds Agree Statements Evening Idiot Paradise Eden Moon And Stars Sun Moon Sun Moon And Stars

Author:Origen

“Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.”

Healing Sun Tree Rain Generous Radiant

Author:Michael Franti

“My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.”

Bigs Eye Sun Tree Sky Rain Window Blue Shining Blank Blue Eyes

Author:Al Jarreau

“Children should be encouraged to search out in nature the objects that illustrate Bible teachings, and to trace in the Bible the similitudes drawn from nature. They should search out, both in nature and in Holy Writ, every object representing Christ, and those also that He employed in illustrating truth. Thus may they learn to see Him in tree and vine, in lily and rose, in sun and star. They may learn to hear His voice in the song of birds, in the sighing of the trees, in the rolling thunder, and in the music of the sea. And every object in nature will repeat to them His precious lessons.”

“I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.”

Life Inspirational I Can Feelings Sun Tree Wind Indian Native Native American Babe Good Feeling

Author:Geronimo

“Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel can speak of mountains, trees, sun, and moon praising God. Unlike an office complex or gymnasium, which have no value if people do not inhabit them, creation can glorify and bring God delight apart from human presence.”

People Ifs Humans Values Humanity Speak Sun Tree Creation Moon Mountain Office Praise Complexes Environmental Delight Prophet Stewardship Genesis Glorify Praise God Jeremiah Gymnasiums Ezekiel

Author:Rodney Clapp

“Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree's log.”

Book:Critical Path

Source: Critical Path

“Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!”

Knows Two Heaven Space Millions Know How Sun Tree Wind Miles Forests Wander Hypocrisy Wilderness Forests And Trees Wandering Around Arbor Day Two Trees

Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

“The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of green so bright and pure that it hurt the eyes; the rest were not a color, but a light, the substance of fire on metal, living sparks without edges. And it looked as if the forest were a spread of light boiling slowly to produce this color, the green rising in small bubbles, the condensed essence of spring. The trees met, blending over the road and the spots of sun on the ground moved with the shifting of the branches, like a conscious caress.”

Source: The Fountainhead

“Thin clouds form, and the shadows lengthen out. They have no breadth, as summer shadows have; there are no leaves on the trees or fat clouds in the sky to make them thick. They are gaunt, mean shadows that bite the ground like teeth. As the sun nears the horizon, its benevolent yellow begins to deepen, to become infected, until it glares an angry inflamed orange. It throws a variegated glow over the horizon.”

Mean Form Sun Tree Sky Summer Shadow Angry Clouds Teeth Fats Horizon Bites Yellow Thick Orange Benevolent Breadth Glare

Book:Salem's Lot

Source: Salem's Lot