Richard Barnfield Quotes

I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.

Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.

In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.

In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks.

I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

I love being outdoors. I love listening to the crickets. I want to embrace nature.

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.

I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

Nature is where my heart is.

I grew up in a village just outside Le Mans, so nature and fresh air are among the things I love the most.

Tahoe is a magical place full of positive energy, beautiful mountains, and lakes all around. It's home for me and feels so good to be there.

I feel comfortable in Chiba. There's more fresh air, and you can see the ocean.

I love generally being out in nature. It is just so amazing.

When you're outside, and everything is highland, it's like nature has its own sound, and that's one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

I love to be surrounded by nature.

I don't have any romantic notions about villages.

I love high summer as well, but nothing beats a perfect May morning.

Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

The Best Things In Life Are Free Sunshine, songs of birds, the blue heavens, sunrise, the sea air, the field full of flowers, the wonders of nature, the magenta sunset, love, joy, peace of mind, the wonders of nature, the warm rain, the dew of the roses, the love of God, etc., are here for our enjoyment.

And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.