Edges Quote by A. E. Housman

“But at the end of February, out of a cold black north a dozen meandering snowflakes fell. They drifted about the air like thrums…

— Nan Shepherd

“Above his monotonous voice one could hear, now and again, a little wind stray through the drying leaves of the trees. A leaf or…

— Frederic Manning

The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?

— Adelaide Crapsey

“Every moment the patches of green grew bigger and the patches of snow grew smaller. Every moment more and more of the trees shook…

— C.S. Lewis

“Knyghtwood, though the gales had stripped away most of its leaves, had not lost its fascination for Ben and the twins. Indeed, its spell…

— Elizabeth Goudge

And the leaves were telling secrets to the wind.

— Peter Mulvey

“The leaves were long, the grass was green, The hemlock-umbels tall and fair, And in the glade a light was seen Of stars in…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“He was among trees then, spring trees tender with the new matchless green of young leaves, and a clear sun dappling them; summer trees…

— Susan Cooper

“What he longs for instead, as he sits at the food-strewn table, is winter, winter itself. He wants the essentiality of winter, not this…

— Ali Smith

“The forest rose about this open glade like an amphitheatre, in golden terraces of horsechestnut and beech. The big nuts dropped velvety and brown,…

— Willa Cather

“Out of the window , I could see a tree in the distance -little more than a sapling, really, stunted and fragile, it's slender,…

— Gary William Murning

“It was one of those autumn mornings which are devoid of melancholy, when the weather seems to be cleaning its house. A broom of…

— Rebecca West