Walt Whitman Quotes, Animal Quotes, Sky Quotes

Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by regular contact with outdoor growths - animals, trees, sun warmth and free skies - or it will dwindle and pale.

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A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Clouds Quotes , Sky Quotes

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Sky Quotes

At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.

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Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Journey Quotes , Sky Quotes

Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?

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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.

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I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Sea Quotes , Sky Quotes

Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Blue Quotes , Sky Quotes

The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Sky Quotes

And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Eye Quotes , Sky Quotes

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Wind Quotes , Sky Quotes

You feel free in Australia. There is great relief in the atmosphere - a relief from tension, from pressure, an absence of control of will or form. The Skies open above you and the areas open around you.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Sky Quotes , Australia Quotes

We're a nation of sheep. If you go out and look up at the sky, people around you will start looking up at the sky.

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Tags : Alan Abel Quotes , Sheep Quotes , Sky Quotes

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Death Quotes , Sky Quotes

If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!

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Tags : Adam Young Quotes , Moon Quotes , Sky Quotes

Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Sky Quotes , Roots Quotes

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Sky Quotes , Aviation Quotes

It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Light Quotes , Sky Quotes

Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Blue Quotes , Sky Quotes

White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Swans Quotes , Sky Quotes