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I would love to work with Shane Meadows - great director. -- Lena Headey
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write. -- Aimee Bender
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. -- P. G. Wodehouse
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. -- William Bartram
Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted. -- David F. Houston
The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play. -- Ray Romano
Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified. -- Donella Meadows
A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky - -- Emily Dickinson
From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own. -- Elizabeth George Speare
But, my darling, if you love me,' thought Miss Meadows, 'I don't mind how much it is. Love me as little as you like." -- Katherine Mansfield
Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes. -- John Milton
Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work. -- Pliny the Elder
Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide. -- John Milton
My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked. -- Daryl Hannah
Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds. -- Henri La Fontaine
Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds -- Henri La Fontaine
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear. -- William C. Bryant
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. -- Georges Bernanos
Can the life of the time be caught in an advertisement? Is that how it is, really, in the meadows of the world? -- Donald Barthelme
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. -- William Wordsworth
When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm. -- Clive Sinclair
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. -- William C. Bryant
My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay; And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass. -- Andrew Marvell
We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center of the meadow and dart into the woods. -- Haruki Murakami
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas. -- Ansel Adams
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings. -- John Muir
It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below. -- Francis Parkman
Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you." -- Max Lucado
If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics of midges hanging over meadows in the sun, the combined sound might lift us off our feet. -- Lewis Thomas
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep? -- John Keats
It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched. -- George Gissing
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. -- John Muir
The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it. -- Michael Josephson
This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures. -- John Burnside
High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world. -- John Burnside
Who, of men, can tell That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail, The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale, The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones, The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones, Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet, If human souls did never kiss and greet? -- John Keats
I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life. -- Ivan Turgenev
Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes! -- Albert Hofmann
A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows. -- Talib Kweli
Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it. -- Henry David Thoreau
Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales, All the air things wear that build this world of Wales. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water. -- Sigurd F. Olson
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green. -- Gaston Bachelard
As you walk through forests or the meadows of your mind, Stop and talk to those you fear Good friendships you may find -- Stephen Cosgrove
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
Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth. -- William Wordsworth
The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows. -- Henry David Thoreau
The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire. -- D. H. Lawrence
The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
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... -- William C. Bryant
Full many a glorious morn I have seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy... -- William Shakespeare
Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves. -- Henry David Thoreau
Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes. -- Alfred Austin
No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them. -- Aldo Leopold
There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows. -- Elizabeth Aston
Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break. -- Elizabeth George Speare
Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Scholars may quote Plato in studies, but the hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength from its inspiration, as the meadows draw it from the brook. -- Moncure D. Conway
I am purely evil; Hear the thrum of my evil engine; Evilly I come. The stars are thick as flowers In the meadows of July; A fine night for murder Winging through the sky. -- Ethel Mannin
Nature is our friend - trees, squirrels, grass, fields, meadows, oceans - without people. Hike. Walk. Stroll. Bike. Swim. Be in a still place and feel eternity. Have a great time. Just feel it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path. -- Garrison Keillor
Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved bythem. We see only the flowers that are under our feet in the meadows. -- Henry David Thoreau
The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct. -- George Bancroft

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