Great Throughts Treasury

"So we must consider both the needs of medical treatment and the protection of wild bears, and find a win-win solution."

"Spring pond deep and wide. Time for the vessel’s return. Slow the duckweed flows together. Willows draw them apart again."

"Sometimes I'd walk, walk far from home, the things I've seen, and I alone."

"Small barge go to meet honored guest. Leisurely lake on come. At railing face cup alcohol. On all sides lotus bloom. On a skiff I meet an honoured guest, slowly, slowly, it comes across the lake. Facing at the railing, we drink a cup of wine, on all sides, lotus flowers are in bloom."

"The annual quota of the trees to be felled in the province is set by the Central Government."

"The mountains are cold and blue now and the autumn waters have run all day. By my thatch door, leaning on my staff, I listen to cicadas in the evening wind. Sunset lingers at the ferry, supper-smoke floats up from the houses. ..Oh, when shall I pledge the great Hermit again and sing a wild poem at Five Willows?"

"The limpid river, past its bushes running slowly as my chariot, becomes a fellow voyager returning home with the evening birds. A ruined city-wall overtops an old ferry, Autumn sunset floods the peaks...Far away, beside Mount Song, I shall close my door and be at peace."

"The cruel farming practice has basically been abolished."

"The woods have stored the rain, and slow comes the smoke as rice is cooked on faggots and carried to the fields; over the quiet marsh-land flies a white egret, and mango-birds are singing in the full summer trees... I have learned to watch in peace the mountain morning-glories, to eat split dewy sunflower-seeds under a bough of pine, to yield the post of honor to any boor at all... Why should I frighten sea gulls, even with a thought?"

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"The survival rate of the newly planted trees has reached 90 percent."

"To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before, There where my brother far away is ascending, The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed."

"Watching wild landscapes I forget distance and come to the water's edge."

"Under the crescent moon a light autumn dew has chilled the robe she will not change -- and she touches a silver lute all night, afraid to go back to her empty room."

"White rocks jutting from Ching stream. The weather's cold, red leaves few. No rain at all on the paths in the hills clothes are wet with the blue air."

"We will set limits to the amount of bear bile to be extracted and the number of bears to be raised in the farms, in accordance with the needs of traditional Chinese medicine."

"Wei City morning rain dampens the light dust. By this inn, green, newly green willows. I urge you to drink another cup of wine; west of Yang Pass are no old friends."

"What's the meaning of making a fuss of these trivialities, which are mostly unintended? It may also violate our human rights."

"With its three southern branches reaching the Chu border, and its nine streams touching the gateway of Jing, this river runs beyond heaven and earth, where the color of mountains both is and is not. The dwellings of men seem floating along on ripples of the distant sky -- these beautiful days here in Xiangyang make drunken my old mountain heart!"

"You also come from my home-town, you must know all the home town news. At dawn, before the silken window, is it too cold for plum blossom to show?"