The sun made the leaves transparent—there was a fragrance, a freshness—the birds sang. I was overcome by it.
In plain words
One morning outside can take your breath away.
Where these words come from
- 94% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The True Story of My Life (autobiography, tr. Mary Howitt, 1847; Gutenberg #7007) — Andersen recalling a moment overwhelmed by a spring scene.
- The True Story of My Life
- 1847
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao TzuClouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.
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Lao TzuClouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.Rabindranath TagoreThe creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.Ralph Waldo EmersonAll art is but imitation of nature.SenecaA violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature.Lao TzuIn wildness is the preservation of the world.Henry David Thoreau