#lowly

The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#central #everglades #expanse #fact #grass

I slowly continued to compensate for the physical problems I was having and ended up completely destroying my swing, my set-up, my posture. Everything was gone. ↗

— David Duval

#completely #continued #destroying #ended #everything

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. ↗

— George Eliot

#down #hour #ignorance #knowledge #pulls

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#disappeared #essentially #established #forgotten #order

I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#before #camp #climbers #concerned #could

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#gertrude stein #happen #making #masterly #nothing

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all. ↗

— Fernand Braudel

#divided #history #into #may #move

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house. ↗

— Benjamin Britten

#color #composing #details #down #driving

The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#aim #complaining #could #culture #even

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#death #eat #hope #slowly #starve