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Famous quotes containing the word fields:

“Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds and wars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, “so hot? my little Sir.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“As the fields fear drought in autumn, so people fear poverty in old age.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Farewell green fields and happy groves,
Where flocks have took delight.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)