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“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

“No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned, and how fine and reassuring the company they keep: Their feet among beautiful groves and meadows, their brows in the sky, a thousand flowers leaning confidingly against their feet, bathed in floods of water, floods of light.”

Made Hands Light Seems Beautiful Water Company Feet Sky Rocks Flower Wall Fine Thousand Awful Compare Temples Flood Majesty Brows Meadows Reassuring Grove Yosemite

Author:John Muir

“The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.”

Source: Hilaire Belloc: An Anthology of His Prose and Verse

“Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.”

Dream Water Imagination Clear Rivers Green Dedicated My Imagination Meadows

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“It's so silly isn't it? how we grown men take up trout angling not simply to pursue trout but to find some place, some special place, where we feel at ease. a place to belong. Forces, not forms, persist: energy is spent and endures; time does not tick, it flows. God loves a man that smells of trout water and mountain meadows. Which way's heaven, you suppose? Follow the trail and keep close to the stream.”

“Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.”

Difficult Water Strokes Astonishing Meadows

Book:Tender Buttons

Source: Tender Buttons

“The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.”

Firsts Wells I Can Book Ends Remember Water Clear Tree Grew Pleasant Over It Lilies Meadows Ponds Shady Clear Water Water Lily

Book:Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales, All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.”

World Water Air This World Woods Lovely Meadows Wales

Book:God's Grandeur

Source: God's Grandeur

“Under various names, I have praised only you, rivers! You are milk and honey and love and death and dance. From a spring in hidden grottoes, seeping from mossy rocks, Where a goddess pours live water from a pitcher, At clear streams in the meadow, where rills murmur underground, Your race and my race begin, and amazement, and quick passage.”

Names Water Race Clear Rocks Spring Rivers And Love Various Streams Honey Passages Milk Goddess Pitcher Meadows Amazement Love And Death Milk And Honey

Author:Czeslaw Milosz