Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If there is anything so romantic as that castle-palace-fortress of Monaco I have not seen it. If there is anything more deliciousthan… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commune - everyone gets… — Oona Chaplin Copy Share Image
We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We draw our strength from the great oaks of the forest. As they take their nourishment from the soil, and from the… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded. — Maria Gowen Brooks Copy Share Image
The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them.… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
But it's not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Growing older, I love only quietness: who need be concerned with the things of this world? Looking back, what better plan than… — Li Bai Copy Share Image
Meditation on a passage of scripture... led a young boy into a grove of trees to commune with his heavenly Father. That… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
When Spring is old, and dewy windsBlow from the south, with odors sweet,I see my love, in shadowy groves,Speed down dark aisles… — Maurice Thompson Copy Share Image
[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image