padla

Bruce Catton quote ✍️

Quote

Go up along the eastern side of Lake Michigan, steer northeast when the land bends away at Point Betsie, and you come before long to Sleeping Bear Point — an incredible flat-topped sand dune rising five hundred feet above the level of the lake and going north for two miles or more. It looks out over the dark water and the islands that lie just offshore, and in the late afternoon the sunlight strikes it and the golden sand turns white, with a pink overlay when the light is just so, and little cloud shadows slide along its face, blue-gray as evening sets in. Sleeping Bear looks eternal, although it is not; this lake took its present shape no more than two or three thousand years ago, and Sleeping Bear is slowly drifting off to the east as the wind shifts its grains of sand, swirling them up one side and dropping them on the other; in a few centuries it will be very different, if indeed it is there at all. Yet if this is a reminder that this part of the earth is still being remodeled it is also a hint that the spirit back of the remodeling may be worth knowing. In the way this shining dune looks west toward the storms and the sunsets there is a profound serenity, an unworried affirmation that comes from seeing beyond time and mischance. A woman I know says that to look at the Sleeping Bear late in the day is to feel the same emotion that comes when you listen to Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, and she is entirely right. The message is the same. The only trouble is that you have to compose a planet, or great music, to say it persuasively. Maybe man — some men, anyway — was made in the image of God, after all.
Bruce Catton Waiting for the Morning Train america history michigan

Related Quotes

Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work. One day, as he was walking al…
Loren Eiseley inspirational starfish wise
And now it is said of me That my love is nothing because I have borne no children, Or because I have fathered none; That I twisted the twig in my hands And cut the blossom free too…
James Wright poem sappho
(I know, it's a poem but oh well).Why! who makes much of a miracle? As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over th…
Walt Whitman inspirational miracles

Similar Crossword Answers

Answer Clues
POEM 468 clues
WISE 265 clues
AMERICA 251 clues
HISTORY 105 clues
SAPPHO 51 clues
MICHIGAN 47 clues
STARFISH 30 clues
MIRACLES 19 clues
INSPIRATIONAL 5 clues

Similar crossword clues

  1. Bruce Actor 78.26%
  2. Bruce Catton's Muse 77.42%
  3. Bruce was one. 72.00%
  4. Bruce Wayne 69.57%
  5. Bruce and Stan 69.23%
  6. Bruce or Ben 66.67%
  7. Bruce and Jason 66.67%
  8. Bruce or Hawthorne 66.67%
  9. Bruce Chatwin book 66.67%
  10. Bruce, for one 64.00%
  11. Bruce "___ Days" 63.64%
  12. Baker, Bruce and Clapton 62.86%
  13. Ex of Bruce Actor 62.07%
  14. Bruce and Brandon 62.07%
  15. Bruce, to Laura 61.54%
  16. BRUCE, NIGEL 60.87%
  17. BRUCE WAYNE, TO BATMAN 60.61%
  18. Bruce ex 60.00%
  19. Bruce from Chicago 60.00%
  20. Bruce contemporary 60.00%
✏️ Suggest new clue

Related word tools

Unscramble BRUCE5-letter words that start with B5-letter words that end in E5-letter words containing RU5-letter words containing CE5-letter words with B and R
Boast – black bird
?
C
?
R
?
O
?
W
Hint 1 meaning
A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.
Hint 2 anagram
WCOR
Hint 3 another clue
Ridicule
Play Crossword
9 +1

New Crossword Suggestion

Clue
Answer (solution)