The trees had stripped down to their black bones and had…

“The land afterward was cleared by oxen, the fallen trees stripped of their bark and cut for lumber that would be used in the…

— David Grand

“Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of…

— Jack London

When we were children we played on the street - on tarmac and things like that.

— Diego Simeone

“Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.”

— Gregory Maguire

Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek.

— Rob Brezsny

In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.

— Laurie Graham

“As children, we played hide and seek with one another, as adults with ourselves.”

— Yahia Lababidi

Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.

— Richard Louv

You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if…

— Pablo Neruda

The measured blood beats out the year's delay.

— Louise Bogan

The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as…

— Patience Strong

“FALL I've never liked orange not even a hint of yellow though that doesn't mean I'm derange, you know. but it's still a riddle…

— Kynna Claire

“Flowers that had bloomed brilliant from spring through autumn blackened under the killing frost.”

— Nora Roberts

The American spring is by no means so agreeable as the American autumn; both move with faltering step, and slow; but this lingering pace,…

— Frances Trollope

This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the…

— Jean Liedloff