Ellen Glasgow Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Spring, Flower, Air

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.224, The Floating Press

• . . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Love, Flower, Animal

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1963). “Collected Stories”

• He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Mind, World

  1900 The Voice of the People, bk.2, ch.4.

• Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Spring, Healing, Heart

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.203, The Floating Press

• ... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Life, Reality, Earth

• If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Grief, Heart, Moon

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

• Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Giving, Heaven, Half

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

• The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Views, Sky, Earth

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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