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“If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.”

Ifs Humans Soul Earth Moving Spirit Animal Wonder Tree Figures Painting Flower Delight Painter Hills Landscape Limbs Fullness Human Soul Petals Figure Painting

Book:Works

Source: Works

“No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.”

Firsts Seems Church Wonder Lord Cutting Tree Down And Hills Temples Cathedrals Grove Tree Of Life Incense Forests And Trees Arbor Day Inspirational Tree Olive Trees

Book:Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.”

Has Beens Moving Speak Known Wonder Tree Stones

Author:William Shakespeare

“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

“I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.”

Should Ideas Wonder Tree Sadness Cheerful Tree Trunks

Book:The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note Book of Roaul Dubois. [Also The Unknown River. An Etcher's Voyage of Discovery]

Source: The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note Book of Roaul Dubois. [Also The Unknown River. An Etcher's Voyage of Discovery]

“The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested, while we looked up in wonder through the great boughs that half hid and half revealed the sky. Some of the boughs were already decaying, so that perhaps we began to see a little more of the sky than our elders; but the tree was sound at its heart.”

Heart Children Littles Religion Father Sound Half Wonder Tree Sky Shadow Elders Our Father Trunks

Author:Lucy Larcom

“For each of us has a perch on the tree. After we are gone, that perch is marked by a notch, permanent, yes, but with its edges muting over time, assuming the tree is ever growing. Years from now someone can see that you were here, or there, and although you had little conception or care for the wider branching, in the next life there might be a sigh of wonder at how quietly flourishing it all was, if never majestic.”

Ifs Years Littles Might Care Next Wonder Gone Growing Tree Assuming Edges Permanent Conception Sigh Flourishing Majestic Next Life Notches

Book:On Such a Full Sea: A Novel

Source: On Such a Full Sea: A Novel

“I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing.”

Knows Believe Earth Spiritual Belief I Believe Difficult Water Wonder Tree Sky Elements I Believe In Firm Firm Beliefs

Author:Bill Blass

“One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one to hear?' Which says something about the nature of philosophers , because there is always someone in a forest. It may only be a badger, wondering what that cracking noise was, or a squirrel a bit puzzled by all the scenery going upwards, but someone.”

May Doe Fall Bits Sound Wonder Tree Philosophical Philosopher Forests Noise Scenery Squirrels Puzzled Recurring Badgers Philosophical Questions

Book:Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)

Source: Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)

“What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Maybe the American Dream is too rich for us now in the U.S. Maybe we're losing it because we are not like our Swedish grandmother who came across the plains, hacked down the trees, and took the Spanish words she encountered and made them hers. Now her great-great-grandchildren sit terrified, wondering what to do with all these Mexicans. The American Dream is an impossible affirmation of possibility. And maybe native-born Americans don't have it anymore. Maybe it has run through their fingers.”

Made Dream Running Born Wonder Rich Impossible Tree Possibility Losing Fingers Native Grandmother American Dream Terrified Affirmation Grandchildren Swedish Hacked Great Grandchildren

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“To wonder where the mind goes after the brain decays is as silly as asking where the 70-miles-per-hour have gone after a speeding auto has crashed into a tree.”

Mind Hours Brain Wonder Gone Tree Asking Miles Silly Decay Speeding

Author:Frank Zindler