“We might do well to stay home a few days and walk over the fields, or to stand in the shelter of the barn door and reflect upon the relentless and yet benevolent forces of Mother Nature. The laws of nature are relentless. They can never be disobeyed without exacting a penalty. Yet they are benevolent, for when they are understood and obeyed, nature yields up the abundance that blesses those who understand and obey.” WellsHomeMightLawMotherForceNatureWalksDoorsFieldsUnderstoodAbundanceBlessYieldShelterPenaltiesLaws Of NatureRelentlessMother NatureBenevolentBarns Author:Wheeler McMillen
“Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.” FeelsWritingWellsInterestMankindDrinkSickBlessDrunkennessLiver Author:Fernando Pessoa
“Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say.... Well may I fast, not from bread but from business, bookmaking, duty doing & other trifles.... I’m in the woods woods woods, & they are in mee-ee-ee.... I wish I were wilder & so bless Sequoia I will be.” WellsMayI CanSeemsWishDutyKingsGloryWoodsBreadBlessTriflesWilderRedwoods Author:John Muir
“Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape the sole! now deftly curl The glassy vamp around it, And bless the while the bright-eyed girl Whose gentle fingers bound it!” WellsFallGirlSoundShapesStonesFingersBoundsRapGentleBlessSoleWornHammersMerryPolishedCurlsClamorVamp Book:Songs of Labor and Reform From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform Source: Songs of Labor and Reform From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform