#ture

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#grief #soul #nature

Nature and books belong to all who see them. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#nature

The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans. ↗

— Sherwood Smith

#nature #rain #nature

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all. ↗

— John Keats

#nature

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humour #nature

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener. ↗

— Paula Fox

#children #reading #nature

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it. ↗

— John Muir

#books #nature #nature

When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky. ↗

— Eva Ibbotson

#sadness #nature

‎Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they didn't answer. ↗

— John Flanagan

#questions #rangers #will #nature

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. ↗

— Willa Cather

#nature