Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningRead
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the divine presence in everyday life, highlighting the importance of awareness and reverence.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's quote suggests that the natural world is filled with beauty and the presence of the divine, yet many fail to notice this profound truth. The act of taking off one's shoes symbolizes humility and respect, encouraging us to approach life and nature with a sense of awe and awareness.
Themes
NatureAwarenessDivinityHumilityBeauty
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about environmental awareness, one might use this quote to encourage others to appreciate nature.
More from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
All quotes βShe has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningRead
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningRead
Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningRead
Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningRead
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningRead
Similar quotes
I care to live only to entice people to look at Natureβs loveliness.
John MuirRead
This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
Barbara KingsolverRead
We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.
Daniel QuinnRead
The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.
Willa CatherRead
Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written.
Richard RohrRead
It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores
John KeatsRead