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«Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year -- and therefore did.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
Advanced Technology, advancing, beaches, cement, cementing, cements, countryside, every year, Famous Or, glimpses, high-priced, high technology, hotels, jets, meadows, priced, slum, slums, surf, surfing, sweetness, The Beaches, tourists, tropical, vanish, wildness
«Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
angels, blossomed, blossoming, heaven, infinite, lovelier, lovely, meadows, one by one, silently, stars, The Angels, The Blossoms
«The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.»
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
adjoin, adjoining, butterflies, links, meadows, missed, missing link, Putts, The Butterflies, uproar, upset
«The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows. . . .»
«The hills,Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, -- the valesStretching in pensive quietness between;The venerable woods -- rivers that moveIn majesty, and the complaining brooksThat make the meadows green; and, poured round all,Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, --Are but the solemn decorations allOf the great tomb of man.»
Author: William Cullen Bryant
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Brooks, complaining, decoration, decorations, Great River, majesty, meadows, move in, pensive, poured, quietness, rib, ribbed, rock-ribbed, solemn, tomb, vales, venerable
«When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
I am alive, look out, meadows, thank
«You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Childhood
| Keywords:
figures, heath, heaths, landscapes, meadows, reflexive
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