Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
Louisa May AlcottRead
Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
Interpretation
Natural beauty surpasses artificial creations, as nature cultivates more splendid creations than human artistry.
This quote highlights the inherent beauty found in nature, particularly in wildflowers like roses, suggesting that what is unrefined and untouched by human hands is often more beautiful than what is artificially manufactured. Louisa May Alcott expresses the idea that nature is a superior force in the creation of beauty, ultimately encouraging appreciation for the organic and the natural over the crafted and the artificial.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about environmental conservation to emphasize the importance of preserving natural beauty.
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
It takes two flints to make a fire.
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage.
We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it.
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.
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