Sky Quotes - Page 26

• Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum - many for a glass of rum. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Glasses, Long

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within the memory of man! As if individual speculators were to be allowed to export the clouds out of the sky, or the stars out of the firmament, one by one. We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Memories, Cutting

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.158

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• The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Book, Garden

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• Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

  Frida Kahlo

  Love You, Wings, Verbs

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• I always start a painting with the sky.

  Alfred Sisley

  Painting

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• All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.

  Yoko Ono

  Fall, Always There For Me, Been In Love

  FaceBook post by Yoko Ono from Apr 24, 2012

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• Someone has said, 'To be a saint is to have loved many things' —many things —
  the tree, the dog, the sky, the flowers, even the color of someone’s clothing.
  You see, when you love, you love, and love extends to everything all the time and everywhere.

  Richard Rohr

  Dog, Flower, Love You

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• Don’t always want to go up. Go down, like water, because eventually it’ll go up again. Just like rain, it falls from the sky, flows as a river, then merges with the sea, the goes up again as a cloud.

  Yasmin

  Rain, Fall, Clouds

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• Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras from Central Casting, so perfectly did they fit into this environment. There was the feeling of everything being not quite real, or too perfectly cliched to actually be true, and it began to rain in a fine, misty drizzle from a black patent leather sky.

  Candace Bushnell

  Real, Rain, Feelings

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• I loved a woman whose beauty Like the moon moved all the humming heavens to music till the stars with their tiny teeth burst into song and I fell on the ground before her while the sky hardened and she laughed and turned me down softly, I was so young.

  Peter Meinke

  Song, Stars, Moon

  Peter Meinke (1991). “Liquid paper: new and selected poems”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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• The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling.

  Wayne Teasdale

  Church, Ceilings, Earth

  Wayne Teasdale (2010). “The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions”, p.185, New World Library

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• Africans sensed in their hearts that Jesus did not mock their respect for the sacred or their clamor for an invincible Savior, so they beat their sacred drums for him until the stars skipped and danced in the skies. After that dance the stars weren't little anymore. Christianity helped Africans to become renewed Africans, not remade Europeans.

  Lamin Sanneh

  Jesus, Stars, Heart

  Lamin Sanneh (2003). “Whose Religion Is Christianity?: The Gospel Beyond the West”, p.43, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Sky is the limit, never doubt yourself, stay focused, never let anything slow or stop you from concurring your goals and making your dreams happen!

  Myles Jury

  Dream, Goal, Doubt

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• All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

  Ovid

  Stars, Eye, Men

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• Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Mind, Awake

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• The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

  Willa Cather

  Lying, Moon, Blue

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.782, Simon and Schuster

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• Tell Youth to play with Wine and Love and never bear away the scars! I may as well tilt up the sky and yet try not to spill the stars.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Stars, Wine, Play

  Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

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• Whether my days are cooled with calm or filled with fever's ardent taint, I have the same blue sky as God, I have the same God as the saint.

  Ridgely Torrence

  God, Blue, Saint

  Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

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• Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance: 'tis He, not I, who shall complain. Meal may be scarce and cakes be burnt, yet I weep not nor even scold: The sun is food enough for me, 't is large, and has not yet grown cold.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Gratitude, Cake, Meals

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• It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of man — where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Appreciation, Adventure, Men

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Beautiful, Flower, Fall

  FaceBook post by Sandra Cisneros from Jun 25, 2010

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• It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a large glowing object hovering in the darkening Arizona sky. But when I made that fateful choice to leavethe truck, I was leaving behind more than just my six fellow workmen. I was leaving behind forever all semblance of a normal life, running headlong toward an experience so overwhelmingly mind-rending in its effects, so devastating in itsaftermath, that my life would never—could never  — be the same again.

  Travis Walton

  Running, Glowing, Years

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• No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Pain, Eye

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• A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.

  Walt Whitman

  Past, Years, Two

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Redwood-Tree”

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• ...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll, Or thunder sound,—the champion of the storm!— Then I feel envy for immortal words, The rush of living thought; oh! then I long To dash my feelings into deathless verse, That may administer to unborn time, And tell some lofty soul how I have lived A worshipper of Nature and of Thee!

  Robert Montgomery

  Nature, Ocean, Hymns

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “An Universal Prayer ; Death ; A Vision of Heaven ; and A Vision of Hell &c. &c”, p.63

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