All Quotes

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by. ”

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. ”

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. ”

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. ”

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. ”

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. ”

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death. ”

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. ”

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. ”

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ”