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“I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees.”

Children Said Play Water White Tree Childhood Fields Clouds Surface Golden Giants Sand Dragons Customs Shore Warning Yellow Floats Dip Daisies Odor Creeks Dandelions Thistles White Clouds

Author:Williston Fish

“The shrimp was lousy and the champagne tasted like water [at the Golden Globes”

Water Golden Globes Champagne Shrimp

Author:Ian McShane

“All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.”

Water Air Sky Fields Lows Blue Green Wings South Golden Lakes Silver Autumn Fall Autumn Autumn Days Autumn Inspirational Green Fields Blue Water

Book:By the Shores of Silver Lake

Source: By the Shores of Silver Lake

“I want to paint sunshine and burning golden leaves and blue waters, and laughing faces.”

Want Faces Water Laughing Blue Paint Golden Burning Sunshine Blue Water

Author:Frederick Varley

“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.”

“The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.”

Earth Water Sun Fields Golden Down To Earth

Author:George Meredith

“The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge.”

Men Grows Water Paid Fruit Bread Golden Bitterness Shore Ashes Affliction Stature Faltering

Book:Chandos: A Novel

Source: Chandos: A Novel

“His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise.”

Eye Lying Water Sweet Flower Spring Arise Golden Mary Bud Larks Winking Golden Eye

Author:William Shakespeare

“My favorite place that I've been to that most people haven't been to is the Golden Triangle in the northeast of Thailand, which is inhabited by people as if in the Stone Age, without any form of power, without running water, simply living in huts on stilts.”

People Ifs Running Age Form Water Havens Stones My Favorite Golden Huts Triangles Thailand Favorite Places Running Water Stone Age Stilts

Author:Arthur Frommer