Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
Gustav MahlerRead
With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
Interpretation
The arrival of spring brings a sense of peace and renewal.
This quote expresses the calming effect that the arrival of spring has on the speaker. It highlights how the changing of seasons can influence our emotions and well-being, suggesting that the beauty and rebirth associated with springtime have a restorative quality.
In practice
During a spring celebration, I shared this quote to express the joy that the season brings.
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
But I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name.
Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths." These are worth it. These are what I have come for.
If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral precept shared by people of all beliefs, it is that we owe ourselves and future generations a beautiful, rich, and healthful environment.
I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees.
A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
Nature has neither kernel Nor shell
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