Meadows Quotes

“You cannot mourn the life
you haven't live yet,
only one that has already gone.
You will never know the meadows
you could grow, if you are fixated
on the ashes of a garden you never had.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

“Just this once, in the very heart of the busiest of cities, everyone was perfectly content not to move and hardly to breathe. And for those few minutes, while the song lasted, Times Square was still as a meadow at evening, with the sun streaming in on the people there and the wind moving among them as if they were only tall blades of grass.”
― George Selden, The Cricket in Times Square

“I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“What a magical place," she whispered in an awed voice. "I expect a unicorn or fairies to appear."
"What would the fairies be doing?" Shermont asked. "Waltzing with the butterflies," she answered before thinking.”
― Laurie Brown, What Would Jane Austen Do?

“Walking through a meadow calling the plants by name is like entering a room of friends instead of strangers.”
― John Hildebrand, Mapping the Farm

“While it is relatively easy to recognize the perennial grasses and seed-eating sparrows as characteristic of meadows, the ecosystems exist in their fullest sense underground. What we see aboveground is only the outer margin of an ecosystem that explodes in intricacy and life below.”
― Amy Seidl, Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World

“The battlefields of life were first meadows and gardens. We made them into battlefields, and by the same power, we must release the dark spell, so they are meadows and gardens once again.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“Ugly or beautiful, it is the little creatures that make the world go round. We should celebrate and appreciated them in all their wonderful diversity.”
― Dave Goulson

“You’re coming back to me,” Lana affirmed with a steadiness that didn’t reflect in those eyes, the shade of sunlit meadows.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Forged Futures

“Out in the wilderness, nature is your translator.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Whispers of amethyst meadows
Where a phoenix once cried.”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, Prince of Chandeliers

“This only unconcerned spectator in the midst of the apparent general bustle, was Mr Meadows; who viewed all that passed without troubling himself to interfere, and with an air of the most evident carelessness whether matters went well or went ill.”
― Fanny Burney, Cecilia

“We gather up a few thin blades of meadow grass and call them the meadow, when the meadow itself rolls off to horizons that escape our view.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Meadows would bore without greenery, and woods would be silent without birds and insects. There would have been no thrill had the stream or brook not babbled or trickled.”
― Shree Shambav, Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories - Series II