The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The Tiger Rising is, again, about a motherless child. His name is Rob Horton. He is dealing with the death of his… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm a Brit and I just put myself on tape, back in London, for a very distant American project that I thought… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You still think I've gone cracked in the head," Ben said, amused. "Listen, if tomorrow we pulled into Biren and someone told… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The clean clear colours were in my head. But one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty,… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be… — Donna VanLiere Copy Share Image
Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out… — Anonymous 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
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
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Never having been in love, this is going to be a real trick. I think of my parents. The way my father… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me.… — Syd Barrett Copy Share Image
There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Isn’t there a time or two you can remember when somehow an animal you’ve hunted has done something to make you let… — Gene Hill Copy Share Image
Long after their associates have gone southward, they linger like the last leaves on the tree. It is indeed "good-bye to summer"… — Neltje Blanchan Copy Share Image
When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. It always wins because it is everywhere. It is in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
You're a kid, your whole life is awesome. It's awesome, right? You had no money, no ID, no cell phone, no nothing,… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring,… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the… — Loren Eiseley 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
Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
A man is likewise form and expression, a written sign thrown unto boundless matter, an undifferentiated word of what is. I've therefore… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
After taking a retreat into the woods of the Russian River Valley to write, reflect, and commune with nature and one another,… — Alaska Copy Share Image
Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
I'll never forget, Christine Woods came up to me on set and she looked at me so seriously and held my hand,… — Kether Donohue Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Love is Enough Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining,… — William Morris Copy Share Image
They shouldn't call anything a boot camp unless you're going off to war. Standup boot camp has been a fantastic thing, for… — Andy Kindler Copy Share Image
And there I saw in the night the vision of a man…coming as it were from Ireland, with countless letters. And he… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image