Source: Tooth and Claw (2003), Chapter 7, section 27 (p. 118)
“But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.”
“All places are distant from heaven alike.”
Section 2, member 4, Exercise rectified of Body and Mind.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“I am the cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.”
The Cat that Walked by Himself.
Just So Stories (1902)
Source: The Cat That Walked By Himself
St. 9
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
“God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.”
pages 16-21 (at page 16)
1890s, The National Parks and Forest Reservations, 1895
June 1890, page 299
John of the Mountains, 1938
The Wild Flag (1943)
Context: Each delegate brought the flag of his homeland with him-each, that is, except the delegate from China. When the others asked him why he had failed to bring a flag, he said that he had discussed the matter with another Chinese survivor, an ancient and very wise man, and that between them they had concluded that they would not have any cloth flag for China anymore.
'What kind of flag do you intend to have?' asked the delegate from Luxembourg. The Chinese delegate blinked his eyes and produced a shoebox, from which he drew a living flower which looked very like an iris. 'What is that?' they all inquired, pleased with the sight of so delicate a symbol.
'That,' said the Chinese, 'is a wild flag, Iris tectorum. In China we have decided to adopt this flag, since it is a convenient and universal device and very beautiful and grows everywhere in the moist places of the earth for all to observe and wonder at. I propose all countries adopt it, so that it will be impossible for us to insult each other's flag.
Additional notes to Genesis (p. 193)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8
Remarks to Lord Shaftesbury at the dissolution of Parliament (July 1865), quoted in Edwin Hodder, The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G. Volume III (London: Cassell, 1886), pp. 187-188. Gladstone said in a speech (18 July) in Manchester after he had been elected for South Lancashire: "At last, my friends, I am come amongst you. And I am come - to use an expression which has of late become very famous, and which, if I judge the matter rightly, is not likely soon to be forgotten - I am come among you "unmuzzled."
1860s
