O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.
Interpretation
This quote expresses appreciation for the natural beauty of the American landscape.
In this quote, Katharine Lee Bates reflects on the awe-inspiring beauty of the American landscape, celebrating its vastness and diversity. The imagery of spacious skies, fields of grain, majestic mountains, and fruitful plains encapsulates a deep sense of national pride and a connection to the natural world, highlighting the rich and varied beauty that characterizes America.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a nature conservation event to inspire appreciation for the environment.
O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Til all success be nobleness And every gain divine!
America! America!_x000D_ _x000D_ God shed His grace on thee_x000D_ _x000D_ And crown thy good with brotherhood_x000D_ _x000D_ From sea to shinning sea!
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
It is a sad moment when the first phlox appears. It is the amber light indicating the end of the great burst of early summer and suggesting that we must now start looking forward to autumn. Not that I have any objection to autumn as a season, full of its own beauty; but I just cannot bear to see another summer go, and I recoil from what the first hint of autumn means.
The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead than alive-for soya, for beef, for palm oil and for logging, feeding the demand from other countries. ... I think we need to be clear that the drivers of rainforest destruction do not originate in the rainforest nations, but in the more developed countries which, unwittingly or not, have caused climate change.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that she again become calm.
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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