Quotes by American Authors - Page 94

The sun - my almighty physician.
Thomas Jefferson
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
Patch Adams
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings: Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers the winds will blow their freshness into you and the storms their energy and cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
John Muir
If you watch how nature deals with adversity continually renewing itself you can't help but learn.
Bernie Siegel
Look deep deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman
Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling . . . every crystal every flower a window opening into heaven a mirror reflecting the Creator.
John Muir
If you wish to know the divine feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God's miracles are to be found in nature itself the wind and waves the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically but behind them is the hand of God.
Ronald Reagan
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.
Gil Stern
When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal when a man destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.
Joseph Wood Krutch
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
George Santayana
Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination but the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree or a yellow birch or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Henry David Thoreau
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay harvests perish flowers vanish but grass is immortal.
Brian Ingalls
What mighty battles have I seen and heard waged between the trees and the west wind - an Iliad fought in the fields of air.
Edith M. Thomas
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.
Reinhold Niebuhr
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan
The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
Eric Johnston
I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God angels plants... and horseshit.
Zero Mostel
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others again are plain honest and upright.
Henry Ward Beecher
Nature is usually wrong.
James McNeill Whistler
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a catchment of sorrows.
Maxine Kumin
Like a gardener I believe that what goes down must come up.
Lynwood L. Giacomini
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
T.S Eliot
After a debauch of thundershower the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Born in inquity and conceived in sin the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
Thorstein Veblen
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
Father calls me William sister calls me Will Mother calls me Willie but the fellows call me Bill!
Eugene Field
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Bill Nye
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things to move from an anarchic individualistic state to a regulated perfectly concious one which alone insures vitality and durability.
Igor Stravinsky
If a literary man puts together two words about music one of them will be wrong.
Aaron Copland
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
Bing Crosby
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
Ed Gardner
She was an aging singer who had to take every note above 'A' with her eyebrows.
Montague Glass
Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah that is where the art resides!
Artur Schnabel
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
Igor Stravinsky
What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong
I am tired before the concert not afterward.
Artur Rubinstein
Music is your own experience your thoughts your wisdom. If you don't live it it won't come out of your horn.
Charlie Parker
Music is only sound expressing certain patterns so to what extent is that sound architecture and to what extent theatre?
Arthur Brown
Opera in English is in the main just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H.L. Mencken
For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire the second half trimming it.
Ethan Mordden
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra not choreography to the audience.
George Szell
No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents.
Vladimir Nabokov
He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.
Stephen Vincent Benét
Richard Wagner a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
Mark Twain
When people hear good music it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.
Edgar Watson Howe
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Igor Stravinsky
The sonatas of Mozart are unique they are too easy for children and too difficult for artists.
Artur Schnabel