There, too, I admired, though I did not gather, the cranberries, small waxen gems, pendants of the meadow grass, pearly and red, w...hich the farmer plucks with an ugly rake, leaving the smooth meadow in a snarl, heedlessly measuring them by the bushel and the dollar only, and sells the spoils of the meads to Boston and New York; destined to be jammed, to satisfy the tastes of lovers of Nature there. So butchers rake the tongues of bison out of the prarie grass, regardless of the torn and drooping plant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mrs. Small went to the kitchen for her pocketbook And came back to the living room with a peculiar look... And the coffee pot. Pocketbook. Pot. Pot. Pocketbook.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.... We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it.--Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And like that game with which the Japanese amuse themselves by dipping in a porcelain bowl of water, small bits of paper which, un...til then were indistinct, but, scarcely plunged in the water, stretch, distort, become colored, differentiated, turn into flowers, houses, substantial and recognizable personages,in the same manner all the flowers in our garden and those of Mr. Swann's park, and the water-lilies of the Vivonne, and the good people of the village and their little homes and the church and all of Combray and its environs, all this which takes shape and solidifies, has come, town and gardens, from my cup of tea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you're growing up in a small town You know you'll grow down in a small town... There is only one good use for a small town You hate it and you know you'll have to leave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to t...he real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »