“Her hands felt their way blindly along the ridges and canyons and defiles of the spine, the firm root-spread hillocks of the… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
“I walked across an empty land I knew the pathway like the back of my hand I felt the earth beneath my… — Keane Copy Share Image
I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
“At the head of the table, where the roots of the fallen tree create a high, twisted chair, is a man. His… — Zoraida Córdova Copy Share Image
At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Shadow looked at the corpse of the baby deer. He decided that if he were a real woodsman, he would slice off… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“[The goal is] "liberation from the bondage of rebirth. According to the Vedantists the self, which they call the atman and we… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Night shift. Jamey raises his arm, and a hundred arms are raised. He smiles, with thousands of teeth. Jamey thinks of Narcissus… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“Towering pines and hemlocks, was it? I thought, clambering over the burled knots of a fallen tree. The monstrous trunks rose so… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“When people visit my farm they often envision their dog, finally off-leash in acres of safely fenced countryside, running like Lassie in… — Patricia B. McConnell Copy Share Image
“He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“Rain comes,” said Eveneye. “Yes,” said Whiteclaw. They fastened the sacs around their necks and began to make their way back home,… — Dylan Lee Peters Copy Share Image
“We have gone far in our public places to push death aside, to consign it to a dusty corner, but in the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
“When the explorer and the settler started to invade the forests, mountains, and streams of the Indian, they soon found that their… — W. Ben Hunt Copy Share Image
“The first forests about which anything is known were made up of the simplest kinds of plants, all of them spore-produced -… — Richard M. Ketchum Copy Share Image
“Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder,… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“It is the iron." Grimalkin picked his way over a puddle, then leaped atop a fallen tree, shaking out his paws."This close… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“I have discovered fallen trees across my path and have possessed neither the strength to move them nor the patience or tenacity… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
“How quickly all the advantages of technological civilisation are wiped out by a domestic squabble. At the beginning of human history, as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The literature of childhood abounds with evidence that the peaks of a child's experience are not visits to the cinema, or even… — Iona Opie Copy Share Image
