48 verified quotes from 26 writers, 1609 to 1923.
Quotes 25 to 48 of 48, page 2 of 2.
Continued from page 1, which has our introduction. Still oldest first.
What “verified” means, and what we leave out: How we verify.
Some keep the Sabbath going to church; I keep it staying at home, With a bobolink for a chorister, And an orchard for a dome
Our note: One of the few poems printed in her lifetime, in 1864, and reprinted in 1890.
Verified in the full text of Some keep the Sabbath going to church on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #12242 · Collected in Poems by Emily Dickinson
Painted the same decade: The Laundress, Honoré Daumier, 186[3?]
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars
Our note: The end of a short poem about leaving a lecture on the stars to go and look at them.
Verified in the full text of When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #1322 · Collected in Leaves of Grass
Painted the same decade: The Spanish Singer, Edouard Manet, 1860
To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement
Our note: From the novel's early night scene on Norcombe Hill, under the stars.
Verified in the full text of Far from the Madding Crowd on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #107
Painted the same decade: View of Marly-le-Roi from Coeur-Volant, Alfred Sisley, 1876
Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light.
Our note: From the elder Zossima's teachings.
Verified in the full text of The Brothers Karamazov on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #28054
Painted the same decade: La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930), Vincent van Gogh, 1889
…to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone
Our note: Stevenson on why a walk is best taken without company.
Verified in the full text of Walking Tours on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #386 · Collected in Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers
Painted the same decade: By the Seashore, Auguste Renoir, 1883
…freedom is of the essence; because you should be able to stop and go on, and follow this way or that, as the freak takes you
Our note: The reason he gives, in the same essay, for walking alone.
Verified in the full text of Walking Tours on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #386 · Collected in Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers
Painted the same decade: Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", Georges Seurat, 1884
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,— One clover, and a bee, And revery.
Our note: The first lines of a very short poem.
Verified in the full text of To make a prairie on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #12242 · Collected in Poems by Emily Dickinson
Painted the same decade: Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), Paul Gauguin, 1891
And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow
Our note: The last verse of the second poem in A Shropshire Lad, spoken by a young man of twenty.
Verified in the full text of Loveliest of trees, the cherry now on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #5720 · Collected in A Shropshire Lad
Painted the same decade: The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten), Ferdinand Hodler, 1896
The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude
Our note: A refrain of the novel, set on the Louisiana coast.
Verified in the full text of The Awakening on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #160
Painted the same decade: The Englishman (William Tom Warrener, 1861–1934) at the Moulin Rouge, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
Our note: Muir inviting readers into the wild parks.
Verified in the full text of Our National Parks on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #60929
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
Our note: Muir on why city people were heading for the mountains in 1901.
Verified in the full text of Our National Parks on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #60929
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise
Our note: The narrator on Buck at full stretch in the chase.
Verified in the full text of The Call of the Wild on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #215
The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.
Our note: The first sentence of the book, just before the Mole gives up and runs outside into the spring.
Verified in the full text of The Wind in the Willows on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #289
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
Our note: Anne, gathering autumn leaves.
Verified in the full text of Anne of Green Gables on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #45
Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.
Our note: A rhyme in the last chapter about minding what grows in your thoughts.
Verified in the full text of The Secret Garden on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #113
Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
Our note: From Muir's journal of a summer herding sheep in the Sierra Nevada in 1869.
Verified in the full text of My First Summer in the Sierra on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #32540
Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914
Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where
Our note: A journal entry from Muir's 1869 summer herding sheep in the Sierra Nevada.
Verified in the full text of My First Summer in the Sierra on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #32540
Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!
Our note: Another entry from the same journal.
Verified in the full text of My First Summer in the Sierra on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #32540
Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.
Our note: Muir in his plea for the wild valleys of the Sierra.
Verified in the full text of The Yosemite on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #7091
Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914
Fortunate country, that is one day to receive hearts like Alexandra's into its bosom, to give them out again in the yellow wheat, in the rustling corn, in the shining eyes of youth!
Our note: The last lines of the novel, on Alexandra Bergson and the land she loved.
Verified in the full text of O Pioneers! on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #24
Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
Our note: From Stray Birds.
Verified in the full text of Stray Birds on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #6524
Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914
Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.
Our note: The first saying in Stray Birds.
Verified in the full text of Stray Birds on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #6524
Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914
…that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great
Our note: Jim Burden, as a boy lying in his grandmother's garden on the Nebraska prairie.
Verified in the full text of My Ántonia on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #242
Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Our note: From "On Clothes."
Verified in the full text of The Prophet on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #58585
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