You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence, Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
There is my father whispering in my ear, Be still still still. And yet you change everything. What was the marsh like,… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan,… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night,… — Richard Eder Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of 'Upstairs Downstairs' is really down to the wonderful format that… — Ellie Kendrick Copy Share Image
Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from… — John Banville Copy Share Image
