Sun Quotes - Page 28

• A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.

  Jacques Roumain

  Dream, Nature, Rain

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• Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.

  Jacques Roumain

  Rain, Angel, Blow

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• As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Cutting, Rose, Dresses

  W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.175, Penguin UK

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• I want you to learn the lesson of the lotus. This flower springs forth from muddy waters. It raises its delicate petals to the sun and perfumes the world while, at the same time, its roots cling to the elemental muck, the very essence of the mortal experience. Without that soil, the flower would wither and die.

  Colleen Houck

  Spring, Flower, Essence

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• I'm pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin. My grandfather is 80 but doesn't look a day over 50. And we all love the sun, too, so blessed is an understatement!

  Amber Rose

  Blessed, Grandfather, Skins

  "Amber Rose's Singular Look" by Johanna Cox, www.elle.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Moon, Use, Comment

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• Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.

  Alan Watts

  Heart, Air, Space

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn
  Indicative that suns go down;
  The notice to the startled grass
  That darkness is about to pass.

  Emily Dickinson

  Long, Darkness, Shadow

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.223, Harvard University Press

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• We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

  Alan Watts

  People, Giving, Heat

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal”, p.85, Vintage

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• Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

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• We could learn to stop when the sun goes down and when the sun comes up. We could learn to listen to the wind; we could learn to notice that it's raining or snowing or hailing or calm. We could reconnect with the weather that is ourselves, and we could realize that it's sad. The sadder it is, and the vaster it is, the more our heart opens. We can stop thinking that good practice is when it's smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it's rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.

  Pema Chodron

  Rain, Heart, Dark

  "The Wisdom of No Escape". Book by Pema Chodron, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1991.

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• The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cheer, Dust, History

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.549, Simon and Schuster

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• Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Moon, Eclipse Of The Sun, History

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.91, Xist Publishing

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• The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone.There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Light, Sight

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.110, Xist Publishing

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• But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past as of tradition. It is not adistance of time, but a distance of relation, which makes thus dusky its memorials. What is near to the heart of this generation is fair and bright still. Greece lies outspread fair and sunshiny in floods of light, for there is the sun and daylight in her literature and art. Homer does not allow us to forget that the sun shone,--nor Phidias, nor the Parthenon.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Distance, Lying

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• It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast in the spring, even to the interior lakes, their scales gleaming in the sun; and again, of the fry which in still greater numbers wend their way downward to the sea.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Spring, Philosophical

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Collected Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated): Philosophical and Autobiographical Books, Essays, Poetry, Translations, Biographies & Letters: Walden, Civil Disobedience, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking…”, p.273, e-artnow

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• What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Stars, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.286, Delphi Classics

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• If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Sweet, Heart

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is a similarity between her operations and man's art even in the details and trifles. When the overhanging pine drops into the water, by the sun and water, and the wind rubbing it against the shore, its boughs are worn into fantastic shapes, and white and smooth, as if turned in a lathe. Man's art has wisely imitated those forms into which all matter is most inclined to run, as foliage and fruit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Art, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.258, e-artnow

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• The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Nature, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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• Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.

  William Butler Yeats

  Virtue

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.81, Wordsworth Editions

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• I had this thought a while ago,
  "My darling cannot understand
  What I have done, or what would do
  In this blind bitter land."
  And I grew weary of the sun

  William Butler Yeats

  Land, Done, Bitter

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.68, Library of Alexandria

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• somewhere in sands of the desert
  A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
  A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
  Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
  Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

  William Butler Yeats

  Moving, Men, Bird

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Wings, Golden

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, William Hazlitt (1852). “The Works of William Shakspeare”, p.190

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• If the doctors cure
  then the sun sees it.
  If the doctors kill
  then the earth hides it.
  The doctors should fear arrogance
  more than cardiac arrest.

  Anne Sexton

  Doctors, Arrogance, Earth

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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