“I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.” PersonsI CanBookBeautifulWaterAcceptingRolesPaintRecognitionIdiotVansLiliesBeing A KidMonetWater Lily Author:Maurice Sendak
“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.” ShouldChildrenHas BeensWaterAnimalTreeChildhoodRocksShould HaveVariousPetSandClimbsButterflyBeesPieBatsMudSnakesBugsDeprivedFrogsLiliesBrooksTurtlesStrawberriesWadeAcornsConesChestnutsGrasshoppersHuckleberryHornetsTadpolesWater LilyMud PiesWild StrawberriesWoodchucks Book:The Training Of The Human Plant Source: The Training Of The Human Plant
“In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like blood, like the seeds of the pomegranate, like red lead, like the red lotus, like saffron, like the resin of certain trees, like the eyes of the Greek partridge or the Indian crane…and like the interior of the half-blown water lily.’ With so many gorgeous descriptive possibilities it is curious that in English the two ancient names for rubies have come to sound incredibly ugly.” TwoEyeCertainNamesSoundWaterHalfTreeBloodPossibilityColorRedSacredRoseAncientUglyChinaSeedsListsCuriousIndianGreekScholarInteriorsGorgeousLiliesRubiesLotusesBengaliTagoreCranesSaffronPomegranatesSacred TextsWater Lily Author:Victoria Finlay
“The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.” FirstsWaterFreedomRainDesertMidstRejoiceShowersLiliesPetalsSandyShrubsWater LilyRain Drop Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“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.” FirstsWellsI CanBookEndsRememberWaterClearTreeGrewPleasantOver ItLiliesMeadowsPondsShadyClear WaterWater Lily Book:Black Beauty Source: Black Beauty
“But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but the sky was not bare of its beautiful blue, and the water reflected it, and a delicious wind ran with the stream, touching the surface crisply.” BeautifulWaterNatureWalksTreeSkyWindRiversBlueSurfaceRanStreamsPleasantTouchingDeliciousLiliesWater Lily Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)
“A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!” MayHappensBeautifulFallWaterBornPureRainDirtyMudLiliesPondsWater Lily Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty.” BeautifulWaterHellFloatsLiliesCrocodilesWater Lily Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan