I want to know: Why is a horse noble and the dove beloved…

If we all had crystal balls, we'd all know which horse to back, wouldn't we?

— Roddy Llewellyn

“A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. If my drawing, on the…

— George MacDonald

“If you want to feel and know everything the horse is doing, begin by feeling and knowing everything you are doing.”

— Catherine Louise Birmingham

He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to…

— Constance Naden

Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters…

— Thomas de Quincey

“For all the allure of speciously stress-free suburbs, for all the grinding of city life, cities endure. And when all those diverse energies are…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

“Our time together feels like a storm, like a wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to escape.”

— Ally Condie

I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and…

— Garth Stein

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

— Henry David Thoreau

“My name is Wind. And Rain. And Bone and Dust. My name is a snippet of a half-remembered song... I have no name... I…

— Sarah J. Maas

Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters…

— William Shakespeare

“The foundational Vajrakilaya is the sun shining in the sky behind the clouds. The path Vajrakilaya is the removal of the clouds from the…

— Gyatrul Rinpoche

“This is the simplest of spells, and foundation to all others. Magic seeks to better understand, and eventually to build on, the connection between…

— Ruthanna Emrys

“There are sparkles of rain on the bright Hair over your forehead; Your eyes are wet and your lips Wet and cold, your cheek…

— Kenneth Rexroth