Meadows Quotes - Page 12

• I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit the animal world to a share in the faculty of reason. It is the cabinet makers who construct a universe of automatons.

  Richard Jefferies

  Business, Lying, Equality

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• . . . the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony and man - all belong to the same family. . . . The White Man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers.

  Chief Seattle

  Brother, Horse, Equality

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• I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted."Oh, inocent love," she said even as she drank from me, "oh, innocent innocent love."

  Anne Rice

  Love, Hands, Together

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• There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
  The earth, and every common sight,
  To me did seem
  Apparelled in celestial light,
  The glory and the freshness of a dream.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Light, Sight

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 1 (1807)

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• Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, piercing sounds, together with the yelping and barking of dogs, are the only noises that reach one through the depths of the upper air. The human voice cannot mount up into these boundless solitudes. Human beings look like ants along the white lines that are highways; and the rows of houses look like children's playthings.

  Alberto Santos-Dumont

  Dog, Children, Moving

  Alberto Santos-Dumont, (2013). “My Air-Ships”, p.24, Read Books Ltd

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• Three Mormon scholars have thoroughly researched one of the most shameful events in Mormon history. They have produced a very detailed, insightful and balanced account of the events leading to the Mountain Meadow Massacre of 9/11, 1857.

  Robert V. Remini

  Insightful, Mountain, Events

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• Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds go loose. Command the last fruits that they shall be full; give them another two more southerly days, press them on to fulfillment and drive the last sweetiness into the heavenly wine.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Summer, Wine, Wind

  Rainer Maria Rilke, M. D. Herter Norton (1993). “Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

  John Milton

  Beauty, Lying, Eye

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 75

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• The crowds at Flushing Meadow are about as impartial as a Nuremberg Rally.

  Ian Wooldridge

  Tennis, Crowds, Nuremberg

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