William Allingham Quotes

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.

You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.

Tell the Earth how much you care, how beautiful she is, and how much you love her. Ask for her forgiveness for having been so careless.

Be gentle with the earth.

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying

Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.

Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.

The world may need fixing, but it's worth preserving.

I have loved flowers that fade,Within whose magic tentsRich hues have marriage madeWith sweet unmemoried scents:A honeymoon delight,A joy of love at sight,That ages in an hourMy song be like a flower!

Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?

Circling the earth in the orbital spaceship I marvelled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world!! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty-not destroy it

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

Usually you just use these words: "I give you my, I make this commitment to you, I honor this idea between us." For me, commitment boils down to honor. Because you make a commitment to protect our environment, you make a commitment to species preservation, you make a commitment to stop things like human trafficking. You make a commitment to stop smoking, to eat better. Typically, something that is positive. A positive notion of honor.

I am hidden in your heart, O Flower.

Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

Nature does require her times of preservation.

The world needs less destruction.

If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.

To take care of the environment, we must first take care of the environmentalist.

Cerulean left. I wondered if she was from Flower Planet. Blue flowers were rare - one might take a name from that.