Beautiful Quote by Anonymous

“ Native Soil There's Nobody simpler than us, or with more pride, or fewer tears. (1922) Our hearts don't wear it as an amulet,…

— Anna Akhmatova

“Beautiful surroundings, the society of learned men, the charm of noble women, the graces of art, could not make up for the loss of…

— Willa Cather

“While the train flashed through never-ending miles of ripe wheat, by country towns and bright-flowered pastures and oak groves wilting in the sun, we…

— Willa Cather

“The Desert Fathers believed that the wilderness had been created supremely valuable in the eyes of God precisely because it had no value to…

— Thomas Merton

“Pommes de Terre” The plow; the raw September earth; the massive-haunched and mighty-hoofed old bay clomping and farting down the furrow; Father holding the…

— Edward Abbey

“Though men in their hundreds of thousands had tried their hardest to disfigure that little corner of the earth where they had crowded themselves…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Man is sitting disconsolate on an anthill one morning. God asks him what the matter is and man replies that the soil is too…

— Chinua Achebe

“In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to…

— Ernest Hemingway

A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.

— Matsuo Basho

“But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-and the ancient forest began to smoke.…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking…

— Ansel Adams