Heat Of The Sun Quotes

• It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

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  E. B. White

  Love   Happiness   Sheep  

  Charlotte'sWeb ch. 22 (1952)

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• The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heat Of The Sun   Soul   Passing Away  

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• Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture.

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  Lucretius

  Life   Summer   Spring  

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.

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  Richard Dawkins

  Heat Of The Sun   Progress   Facts  

  "The Illusion of Design". Natural History Magazine, November 2005.

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• I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves until once more only the muted roar of the city is audible, and the city, bathed in sunlight, once again resumes dreaming its collective dream. Cars roll down the city's roads, plants grow from its soil, wealth is generated in its rooms, hope is created and lost and recreated in the minds and souls of its inhabitants, and the city continues its dream and searches for those ideas that will make it strong.

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  Douglas Coupland

  Dream   Strong   Heat Of The Sun  

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations. The heat of the sun's rays represents an immense amount of energy vastly in excess of waterpower...The sun's energy controlled to create lakes and rivers for motive purposes and transformation of arid deserts into fertile land.

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  Nikola Tesla

  Rivers   Lakes   Heat Of The Sun  

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• Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

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  William Shakespeare

  Girl   Death   Art  

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 4, sc. 2, l. 258

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• Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

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  William Shakespeare

  Girl   Death   Dust  

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 4, sc. 2, l. 258

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• The hard surface of the stone is impervious to nothing in the end. The heat of the sun leaves evidence of daylight. Each drop of rain changes the form; even the wind and the air itself, invisible to our eyes, etches its presence. … All history is taken in by stones.

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  Susan Griffin

  Taken   Rain   Eye  

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.8, Open Road Media

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