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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
John Keats1795–1821To Autumn (1820)In context
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art!
John Keats1795–1821Bright Star (1838)In context
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer1886–1918Trees (1913)In context
- Poetry
As we give thanks for the Earth, will we live in such a way that the Earth can be grateful for us?
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953from interviews and conversations (2015)
- Thanksgiving
The land knows you, even when you are lost.
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 36
A harvest is made honorable when it sustains the giver as well as the taker.
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 194
- Morality
When all the world is a gift in motion, how wealthy we become.
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 31
- Money
Oh the road to Mandalay,
Where the flyin’-fishes play,
An’ the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ’crost the Bay!
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Mandalay (1890)In context
Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail.
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
Paul Klee1879–1940Diary entry (Munich, 1909), # 857, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968, p. 236
- Art
Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle.
Peter Kropotkin1842–1921Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902), Chapter I
In wilderness, I sense the miracle of life, and behind it, our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Charles Lindbergh1902–1974“The Wisdom of Wilderness” in LIFE (22 December 1967)
- Science
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Charles Lindbergh1902–1974“Is Civilization Progress?” in Reader’s Digest (July 1964)
- Technology
After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.
Charles Lindbergh1902–1974Autobiography of Values (1978)
- Life & Death
He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.
Jack London1876–1916The Call of the Wild (1903), Chapter VIIn context
- Power
When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack.
Jack London1876–1916The Call of the Wild (1903), Chapter VIIIn context
- Animals