In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as far as human vision r...eaches, merely raising his eyelids; or if he is too lazy to look after all, he can hardly help hearing the ceaseless dash and roar of the breakers. The restless ocean may at any moment cast up a whale or a wrecked vessel at your feet. All the reporters in the world, the most rapid stenographers, could not report the news it brings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's this crazy weather we've been having: Falling forward one minute, lying down the next... Among the loose grasses and soft, white, nameless flowers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O suns and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together,... Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'A thing is called by a certain name because it instantiates a certain universal' is obviously circular when particularized, but i...t looks imposing when left in this general form. And it looks imposing in this general form largely because of the inveterate philosophical habit of treating the shadows cast by words and sentences as if they were separately identifiable. Universals, like facts and propositions, are such shadows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A process in the weather of the world Turns ghost to ghost; each mothered child... Sits in their double shade. A process blows the moon into the sun, Pulls down the shabby curtains of the skin; And the heart gives up its dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who makes that, ...but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather-clerk's factory who experiment and learn how.... In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four-and-twenty hours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »