A Quote by Loren Eiseley

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Loren Eiseley

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Loren Eiseley
American - Scientist
September 3, 1907 - July 9, 1977

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.

Francis Thompson

You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

Arthur Eddington

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

Francis Thompson

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

Loren Eiseley

Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

Gautama Buddha

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Abraham Lincoln

Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.

Madeleine L'Engle

Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower. [Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]

Ovid

Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.

Maurice Maeterlinck

When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds there could be no rain, and without rain there would be no flower.

Nhat Hanh

Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.

William Allingham

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

William Shakespeare

I have likewise made many 'skies' and effects - for I wish it could be said of me as Fuselli says of Rembrandt, 'he followed nature in her calmest abodes and could pluck a flower on every hedge - yet he was born to cast a steadfast eye on the bolder phenomena of nature'... We have had noble clouds & effects of light & dark & color.