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I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. II, letter to Miss Georgiana Harcourt (1838), p. 410
- Comedy
See how the trees beside a stream in flood
Save, if they yield to force, each spray unharmed,
But by resisting perish root and branch.
Sophocles496–406 BCAntigone (c. 441 BC), spoken by HaemonIn context
- Advice
- Wisdom
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the black bird.
Wallace Stevens1879–1955Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1917)In context
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
Wallace Stevens1879–1955The Snow Man (1921)In context
- Philosophy
In the world’s audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeam and the stars of midnight.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941The Gardener (1913), 74
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
Sara Teasdale1884–1933There Will Come Soft Rains (1918)In context
- Life & Death
Little flower — but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892“Flower in the Crannied Wall” (1869)
- God
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring’d with the azure world, he stands
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892The Eagle (1851)In context
- Animals
Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Break, Break, Break (1842)In context
- Emotion
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892The Eagle (1851)In context
- Animals
Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849).
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Journal (30 August 1856)
Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walking (June 1862)
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walking (June 1862)
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Journal (3 April 1852)
- Animals