The morning was so damp and misty

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial…

— George Eliot

It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects…

— Charles Darwin

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in…

— Pete Hamill

The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and…

— John Stuart Mill

Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know certain things.…

— Geraldine Brooks

I can't live without mousse. When my hair is damp I put it at the roots. When I blow dry my hair it makes…

— Shay Mitchell

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

— John Steinbeck

Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements - ideally corresponded…

— Jean-Claude Ellena

Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious…

— John Adams

Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp…

— Garrison Keillor

If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used…

— Jonathan Raban

“It was a rimy morning, and very damp. I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some…

— Charles Dickens

There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama only the English have mastered the…

— Sheridan Morley

To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of…

— Barbara Hurd