Quotes by John Lubbock

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”

“If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.”

“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.”

“The whole value of solitude depends upon ones self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it”

“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”

“In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking”

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summers day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time”

“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.”

“If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow”

“To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being”

“In summer, the song sings itself.”

“Summer is the time when one sheds ones tensions with ones clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that alls right with the world.”

“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.”

“Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.”

“Ah, summer - what power you have to make us suffer and like it”

“The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall”

“When in doubt, do it.”

“Its designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.”

“Rest when youre weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.”

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”