Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. Stand in your own dooryard and you have eight thousand miles of solid ground beneath you, and all the sidereal splendors overhead.

  • -- John Burroughs 美国博物学家巴勒斯

不可轻看自己的住处和时候。每一个地方都在星空下,每一个地方都是世界的中心。站在自家的院子里,脚下有八千英里的坚实土地,头顶上星光灿烂。

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow, No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

我死后不要给我玫瑰。 当死亡夺去我额头的光亮, 没有任何生命之花能让我高兴:相反,我可以 你现在可以给我玫瑰了!

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

哪里有虔诚的音乐,上帝总是与他的恩典同在。

The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.

宇宙对人的存在出奇地冷漠。

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

我浪费了时间,现在时间也在浪费我。