If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow LindberghRead
Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the beauty and memories associated with nature and the passage of time.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh's quote encapsulates a sense of nostalgia and wonderment for the natural world. It evokes imagery of expansive fields and starry skies, highlighting the profound impact that such experiences have on one's memories and life journey. The reference to 'many days' and 'many nights' emphasizes the continuity of existence and the richness of moments spent in the embrace of nature.
In practice
During a speech reflecting on the importance of preserving natural spaces.
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music--then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it.
It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.
Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui In the green fields of Lebennin! Tall grows the grass there. In the wind from the Sea The white lilies sway, And the golden bells are shaken of mallos and alfirin In the green fields of Lebennin, In the wind from the Sea!
The roofs are shining from the rain,_x000D_ _x000D_ The sparrows twitter as they fly,_x000D_ _x000D_ And with a windy April grace_x000D_ _x000D_ The little clouds go by._x000D_ _x000D_ Yet the back yards are bare and brown_x000D_ _x000D_ With only one unchanging tree-_x000D_ _x000D_ I could not be so sure of Spring_x000D_ _x000D_ Save that it sings in me.
The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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