Ellen Glasgow - Earth Quotes

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Where else on earth, he sighed, could people know as little and yet know it so fluently?

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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.

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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also, with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of men and women. As the weeks passed, that inextinguishable hope, which mounts always with the rising sap, looked from their faces.

Ellen Glasgow

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

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Every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

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He's at the age when a man knows everything on earth an' generally knows it wrong.

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The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

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