Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool…

[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey’d dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning...

— William Blake

The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort at a…

— Henry David Thoreau

I don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash,…

— Brandon Sanderson

Other factors affecting the '109 as a combat plane include the small cramped cockpit. This is quite a tiring working environment, although the view…

— Anonymous

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

— William C. Bryant

Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few…

— E. O. Wilson

Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of…

— Maya Angelou

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen,…

— Melina Marchetta

The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long…

— Rick Yancey

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep…

— William Shakespeare

Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The greatest benefit derived from the study of science is that it lifts you out of and above the littleness of daily trials. We…

— Maria Mitchell

“You've to close down your umbrella when you are under a canopy. Drop your pride; give praise to God!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“The canopy of trees overhead is so thick that only bits and pieces of blue sky can be seen overhead. Narrow rays of sunshine…

— Vanessa G. Foster

There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the…

— Oprah Winfrey