BLUE BLUE SKIES & GREEN GREEN GRASS
Blue skies and green grass have inspired many an artist, poet, songwriter -- and, in fact, many a human in general. As move finally feel spring warmth and see the beautiful green and blue evidence of its reality, we check in with the thoughts and images that celebrate this glorious time.
From Irving Berlin, to Claude Monet, Diane Ackerman, Vincent Van Gogh, Emily Bronte, Tom Jones, Robert Fulghum, Van Morrison, Thomas Edison, to name a few, check out inspiring ideas about beautiful blue skies and green grass, with images to heighten your experience.
Perhaps you have some of your own to share?
“Blue skies
Smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies
Do I see.”
-- Irving Berlin, “Blue Skies”
“I never get tired of the blue sky.”
-- Vincent Van Gogh
“When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.”
-- Diane Ackerman
“One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.”
-- Claude Monet
“And there in those wild bowers
A lovely form is laid;
Green grass and dew-steeped flowers
Wave gently round her head.”
-- Emily Bronte
“It's good to touch the green, green grass of home.”
-- Tom Jones, “Green Green Grass Of Home"
“The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.”
-- Robert Fulghum
“Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.”
-- Van Morrison, “Brown Eyed Girl”
“Spring with its wavin' green grass and heaps of sweet-smellin' flowers on every hill and in every dale.”
-- Roy Bean
“The naked earth is warm with Spring,
And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun's kiss glorying,
And quivers in the sunny breeze.”
-- Julian Grenfell
“Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.”
-- Thomas A. Edison
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