Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare…

Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a…

— William Carlos Williams

“The stars are reliable, unlike any other thing in this crazy world. Leaves fall off the trees. Snow melts. Rain washes away all the…

— Hannah Brencher

A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was…

— Kevin Starr

“It was dusk - winter dusk. Snow lay white and shining over the pleated hills, and icicles hung from the forest trees. Snow lay…

— Joan Aiken

“[...] a sigh fit for the pillow, the sinking firelight, and a bedroom window open to the stars and the whisper of bare trees.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“He smoked a pipe, and Laroche, who indulged in neither tobacco nor spirits, simply sat upright in his chair and looked toward the quince…

— Eli Brown

“Because they did not burn the land with the same skill and frequency as its previous occupants, the forests grew thicker. Left untended, maize…

— Charles C. Mann

“On the hill behind her crows flew one by one into the bare trees, arranging their dark blots in the scrim of branches and…

— Barbara Kingsolver

What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Suppose that insect wings developed primarily as thermoregulators and then were used for skimming and finally flying, evolving along the way. What would they…

— Noam Chomsky

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

— William Bolitho

I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low. 'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there…

— Veronica Roth

“What is different, and troubling, is that skimming is becoming our dominant mode of reading. Once a means to an end, a way to…

— Nicholas Carr

Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down time so…

— Tana French

Skimming has led, I believe, to a tendency to go to the sources that seem the simplest, most reduced, most familiar, and least cognitively…

— Maryanne Wolf