“A sense of desolation settled within me: a cold, slimy stone lodged under my lungs. There was nothing happy about the woods,… — Craig Davidson Copy Share Image
Outside Buckingham Palace, the Royal Standard flies only when the reigning monarch is in residence. Sadly, there's no similar flag outside The… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. Even the trees of the wood are glad… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's… — John Milton Copy Share Image
He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was… — Richard Hough Copy Share Image
Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work. — R. K. Milholland Copy Share Image
I was really interested in this ability for others to create virtual memories for us. In "The Cartographers" I explore this through… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
