“The sky is a blanket that hovers over our heads all the time. Preserves our environment, which plays with us every season. The sky changes its form every season and every moment, making us feel surprised.”

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“Beneath our feet and o'er our head
Is equal warning given:
Beneath us lie the countless dead,
Above us is the heaven! Death rides on every passing breeze,
And lurks in every flower;
Each season has its own disease,
Its peril every hour.”

Reginald Heber (1783–1826) English clergyman

"At a Funeral", No. I.
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“I want everybody in the world to know that this is the way I play all the time. All season, every season. I gave everything I had to this game.”

Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player

Speaking to Roger Angell before Game 7 of the 1971 World Series, as quoted in "Some Pirates and Lesser Men" https://books.google.com/books?id=7PP7VJ0gXa0C&pg=PA285&dq=%22I+want+everybody+in+the+world+to+know+that+this+is+the+way+I+play+all+the+time%22 by Angell, in The New Yorker (November 6, 1971), p. 148; reprinted in Angell's The Summer Game (2004), p. 285 <br class="br">Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1971</big>

“In our variable climate where [all] the seasons are recognizable in one day, where all the vapoury turbulence involves the face of things, where nature seems to sport in all: her dignity and dispensing incidents for the artist’s study.... how happily is the landscape painter situated, how roused by every change in nature in every moment, that allows no languor even in her effects which she places before him, and demands most peremptorily every moment his admiration and investigation, to store his mind with every change of time and place.”

J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker

Quote from Turner's lectures, 1811; as cited in Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Andrew Wilton; London: Academy Editions, 1979; as quoted in 'A brief history of weather in European landscape art', John E. Thornes, in Weather Volume 55, Issue 10 Oct. 2000, p. 367-368
In 1811 already Turner gave his first lectures as Professor of Perspective; in one of his lectures he spoke of the advantages of the British climate for landscape artists
1795 - 1820

“Every time I open a child's head and see a brain, I marvel at the mystery: This is what makes every one of us who we are. This is what hold all our memories, all our thoughts, all our dreams. This is what makes us different from each other in millions of ways.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 234

“Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

Source: Simply Perfect

“Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“Every life has moments that change us forever and make us who we are.”

Marie Brenner (1949) About someone's LIFE and Hers

Source: Apples and Oranges https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/79-apples-a-oranges-brenner?start=3

“The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.”

Kim Stanley Robinson book Galileo's Dream

Source: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 15, p. 354

“Quality is the continuing stimulus which our environment puts upon us to create the world in which we live. All of it. Every last bit of it.”

Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 20
Context: In our highly complex organic state we advanced organisms respond to our environment with an invention of many marvelous analogues. We invent earth and heavens, trees, stones and oceans, gods, music, arts, language, philosophy, engineering, civilization and science. We call these analogues reality. And they are reality. We mesmerize our children in the name of truth into knowing that they are reality. We throw anyone who does not accept these analogues into an insane asylum. But that which causes us to invent the analogues is Quality. Quality is the continuing stimulus which our environment puts upon us to create the world in which we live. All of it. Every last bit of it.

“Every day, God gives us the sun — and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Variant: Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“The sky is a blanket that hovers over our heads all the time. Preserves our environment, which plays with us every season. The sky changes its form every season and every moment, making us feel surprised.”

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