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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White1899–1985“Coon Tree,” The New Yorker (14 June 1956), The Points of My Compass: Letters from the East, the West, the North, the South (1962); reprinted in Essays of E.B. White (1977)
Most cooks when they are young tend to overwork their food to hide their lack of confidence and appreciation for Mother Nature. In time they learn that she is the true artist⁠—we’re just the cooks.
Marco Pierre Whiteborn 1961Marco Pierre White in Hell’s Kitchen (2008)
- Food
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
Walt Whitman1819–1892Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Miracles
Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!
Walt Whitman1819–1892Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
Walt Whitman1819–1892Song of Myself (1855), 6In context
- Children
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars
Walt Whitman1819–1892Song of Myself (1855), 31In context
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Walt Whitman1819–1892When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (1865)In context
- Life & Death
I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
Walt Whitman1819–1892When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer (1865)In context
- Science
Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!
Clouds of the west⁠—sun there half an hour high⁠—I see you also face to face.
Walt Whitman1819–1892Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (1856)In context
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900De Profundis (1897)
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Ode: Intimations of Immortality (1807), “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” (1807)In context
And ‘t is my faith, that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Lines written in Early Spring
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky
William Wordsworth1770–1850My Heart Leaps Up (The Rainbow), ll. 1-2 (wr. 1802; pub. 1807)In context
- Happiness
I wandered lonely as a Cloud
That floats on high o’er Vales and Hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden Daffodils;
Beside the Lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
William Wordsworth1770–1850I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1807)In context
For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)In context
- Maturity