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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Beautiful, Long, Nothing

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Mao Zedong

Thought, Flowers, Schools

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
Wallace Stevens

Spring, Poor, Her

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Sara Teasdale

Life, Beautiful, Children

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
Don DeLillo

Time, Fear, Rain

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
John Fowles

Through, Move, Seem

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux

Life, Poetry, Flower

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
William Ellery Channing

Life, God, Mind

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Annie Dillard

Spiritual, Energy, Wind

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
Hamlin Garland

Remember, Lovely, Trees

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
Georges Simenon

Real, Become, Mountains

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
Aldo Leopold

Single, May, Ignore

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
Norman MacCaig

Love, Hills, Gregarious

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
Andy Goldsworthy

Powerful, Snow, May

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia

Hope, Tomorrow, Flowers

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke

Deep, Light, Keep

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
David Gerrold

Mean, Laws, Immune

There is no forgiveness in nature.
Ugo Betti

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton

Art, Musicians, Air

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Wilson Lynd

Nothing, Before, Leave

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
Hal Boyle

Doubt, Else, Makes

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Weep, Winds, Soothing

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
Gilbert White

Play, Drink, Surface

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.
William Bartram

Though, Late, Full

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