Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John KeatsRead
I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!
Interpretation
The quote expresses admiration for the beauty of nature and the experience of being in it.
In this quote, John Keats romantically conveys the experience of sailing through the sky, which symbolizes freedom and adventure. His exclamation of beauty reflects the profound appreciation he has for both the journey and the natural world, highlighting the connection between human emotion and the beauty of the surroundings.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a nature-themed event to emphasize the beauty of the outdoors.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?
Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately, and do all you can to console me in it β make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me βwrite the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair.
Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably
I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
...I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.
The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us.
And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless october, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dog and the echo of louis' voice dying away
We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.
To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
The _x000D_ Earth would die_x000D_ If the sun stopped kissing her.
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