Brooks Quote by Anonymous

“I came to the conclusion, Marilla, that I wasn't born for city life and that I was glad of it. It's nice to be…

— L.M. Montgomery

“....and she speculated that the city would be cold, completely of itself, unconscious, that its every move would be transcendent, and that each of…

— Mark Helprin

“Staring down at the brook, I remembered a stream near Mammoth Lake. We’d parked the camper just above it and, all night, listened to…

— Richard Matheson

“HAVE you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?…

— Emily Dickinson

“The sound of the waves was more soothing than any other sound in the world, save maybe the rain.”

— Jess Bowen

“city, but still it lingered, like a tune or an aroma, set in motion whenever”

— Joan London

“In all these sights I achieve solace only in bringing forth trees, picturing them blooming like smoke from the roofs of gutted buildings, dreaming…

— Tod Wodicka

“I spent hours dreaming of the sunshine, the way it soaked into the city walls and made the yellow stones hot to lean on…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“As he strode through the deserted city, he thought of the New Years of his childhood, before he was ten, before the Change, when…

— Olga Grushin

“And it's finally only in the woods you get that nostalgia for "cities" at last, you dream of long gray journeys to cities where…

— Jack Kerouac

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

— Leigh Hunt

“Falling seemed to take forever as the water slowly rose to meet me. The dome of city hall continued to gleam in the distance,…

— P.R. Mason