«It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.»

«Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still»

«And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river: / And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow: / And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness: / And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: / And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.»

«Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?»

«You cannot forget if you would those golden kisses all over the cheeks of the meadow, queerly called dandelions.»

«The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.»

«And meadow rivulets overflow, And drops on gate-bars hang in a row, And rooks in families homeward go, And so do I»

«How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.»