Ann Zwinger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When there is a river in your growing up, you probably always hear it
-- Ann Zwinger

#Growing Up #Rivers #Growing
There will always be something new to discover: a minute moss never found before, a rabbit eating birdseed with the bores on a hungry November day, a bittern that stays only long enough to be remembered.
-- Ann Zwinger

#Nature #Long #Moss
Flies are the price we pay for summer.
-- Ann Zwinger

#Summer #Pay #Insects
I have walked this south stream when to believe in spring was an act of faith. It was spitting snow and blowing, and within two days of being May ... But as if to assert the triumph of climate over weather, one ancient willow managed a few gray ***** willows, soft and barely visible against the snow-blurred gray background.
-- Ann Zwinger

#Spring #Believe #Weather
A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.
-- Ann Zwinger

#Fall #Cutting #Engineering
The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts in the fall and scold all year long; bobcats track the snowy lake in winter; deer browse the willow shoots in spring. Humans are but intruders who have presumed the right to be observers, and who, out of observation, find understanding.
-- Ann Zwinger

#Nature #Spring #Flower
Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.
-- Ann Zwinger

#Flower #Acceptance #Survival

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.
By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, â€œThere is no hurry. We shall get there some day.â€ But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.
Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'
But I do enjoy wordsâ€”some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they representâ€”
A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.
The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.
What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
But time growing old teaches all things.
Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.
I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

Ann Zwinger famous quotes

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