Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But Winter has yet brighter scenes-he boasts Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows; Or Autumn with his many fruits, and woods All… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning… — Homer Copy Share Image
“The children walk away from me, flick flickety off at a tangent between thin blotched beech trunks, then turn like yo-yos at… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
I know that meeting a black woman with a love for hockey is a bit like stumbling upon a unicorn in the… — Retta Copy Share Image
Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and… — Clive Anderson Copy Share Image
After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own,… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The woods are never solitary– they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Too, some of my teachers helped me to navigate those books, showed me the maps and paths and secret decoder rings -… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box.… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard.… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The woods were made for the hunters of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song; To the hunters who hunt for… — Sam Walter Foss Copy Share Image
“I am not altogether on anybody’s side , because nobody is altogether on my side , if you understand me: nobody cares… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and… — John Webster Copy Share Image
We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs,… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
I'm a secret nonmember of the establishment. This isn't a grubby kind of revolution I'm talking about. This isn't Che Guevara stuff.… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
I try to build the things so that they're fairly indestructible. I've learned from my mistakes and some of those units, even… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
“He liked the grand size of things in the woods, the feeling of being lost and far away, and the sense he… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I think that Tiger Woods takes over so much that if he wasn't around, if he had retired, the golf world would… — Seve Ballesteros Copy Share Image
My father was a great outdoorsman. From when I was about six we would spend countless hours together in the woods or… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first film where I had a speaking role was 'The Low Life,' but I did appear for about three seconds in… — Ron Livingston Copy Share Image
We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
