Angus Wilson Quotes

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

In summer, I like to sit and compose on the porch, where I can see people come and go.

On some days, I just want to sit under a shooting umbrella in a sunny outdoor location all over again.

I love high summer as well, but nothing beats a perfect May morning.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

Don't you like when the winter's gone, And all of a sudden it starts gettin' warm? The trees and the grass start lookin' fresh, And the sun and sky be lookin' their best.

No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.

Sun, silence, and happiness.

Fresher than a pillow with a mint on it

I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine café.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.

Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is getting something. The truth is doing us good. The truth of the sunshine, the truth of the rain, the truth of the fresh air, the truth of the wind in the trees, these are truths. And they are always accessible!

There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.

Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning.

All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.

After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts.