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Spring is noticed, if at all
By people sitting in railway trains.
Bertolt Brecht1898–1956“Concerning spring” [Über das Frühjahr] (1928), Uhu, Berlin, IV, 6 (March 1928); trans. Christopher Middleton in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 158
I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter IXIn context
Autumn wins you best by this its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Robert Browning1812–1889Paracelsus (1835), Part 1.
Oh, to be in England
Now that April’s there
Robert Browning1812–1889Home-Thoughts, from Abroad (1845)In context
That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning1812–1889Home-Thoughts, from Abroad (1845)In context
- Music
To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language
William Cullen Bryant1794–1878Thanatopsis (1817)In context
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe (1792)
- Change
Where you tend a rose, my lad,
A thistle cannot grow.
Frances Hodgson Burnett1849–1924The Secret Garden (1911), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Thinking
I’m truly sorry man’s dominion
Has broken Nature’s social union,
An’ justifies that ill opinion,
Which makes thee startle,
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An’ fellow-mortal!
Robert Burns1759–1796To a Mouse (1786)In context
- Animals
My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe,
My heart’s in the Highlands wherever I go.
Robert Burns1759–1796My Heart’s in the Highlands (1790)In context
- Patriotism
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more
Lord Byron1788–1824Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–1818), Canto the Fourth (2 of 2)In context
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean⁠—roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin⁠—his control
Stops with the shore
Lord Byron1788–1824Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–1818), Canto the Fourth (2 of 2)In context
There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
John Calvin1509–1564Sermon Number 10 on I Corinthians, 698. As quoted in John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait (1989) by William J. Bouwsma, pp. 134–135.
- Happiness
In our own lifetime we are witnessing a startling alteration of climate.
Rachel Carson1907–1964The Sea Around Us (1951)