“Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.”
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“My tears must stop, for every drop
Hinders needle and thread.”
1840s, The Song of the Shirt (1843)
2010s, Nobel Prize winner highlights women’s role in Arab Spring (2011)
“My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Context: In this pleasing contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect, and, I cannot doubt it, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not and see it not. My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.
NPR interview with Carl Kasell (1984) partly rebroadcast in "'Captain Kangaroo' Dies at 76" in All Things Considered (NPR) (23 January 2004) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1614644
Context: It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think it just as important that we prepare people for the definition of being gentle. … for so many years gentle has been equated with weakness but it requires more strength to be gentle. So it's the every day encounters of life that I think we prepare children for and prepare them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
“Is there evil but on earth? or pain in every peopled sphere?”
Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 197
As quoted in the American Federation of Labor Bulletin, Vol. 8, Issues 11-18 (1926), p. 69
2010s, Democratic National Convention speech (2012)