Alan Watts Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Spring Quotes

If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.

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If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Spring Quotes , London Quotes

I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Spring Quotes , Bravery Quotes

And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Spring Quotes , Firsts Quotes

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Stars Quotes , Spring Quotes

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Spring Quotes , Years Quotes

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

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I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Spring Quotes , Feelings Quotes

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Love Quotes , Spring Quotes

Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Spring Quotes , Sunset Quotes

O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Memories Quotes , Spring Quotes

From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Spring Quotes , Twilight Quotes

'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Spring Quotes , May Quotes

True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.

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"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Spring Quotes

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Life Quotes , Spring Quotes

Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Spring Quotes , Spring Time Quotes

All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,--it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Weed Quotes , Spring Quotes

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Spring Quotes , Food Quotes

I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Summer Quotes , Spring Quotes