Quote by Charles C. Mann

“There were Palladian windows and a number of roof peaks and an assortment of architectural conceits, all overlooking a vast lawn devoid of ornamentation.”

— Robert B. Parker

“How this peculiar grass, native to Central America and unknown to the Old World before 1492, came to colonize so much of our land…

— Michael Pollan

“...Remember that nutty little story I told you about the first time I ever went overseas for my junior year abroad at Green Bay,…

— Lionel Shriver

“The urban sprawl of squat earthen buildings trailed into the woods, layered, unobtrusive, camouflaged by nature, inadvertent interruptions to the greenways. The”

— Maurice Broaddus

“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

“Even the sky a hybrid — here clean and black and starred, there roiling with a brusque signature of cloud or piled in strata…

— Stanley Elkin

“Someone had cleared that hillside once to make an orchard that had fallen into ruin and was now only twisted silver branches and split…

— Louise Erdrich

“...and to his eyes, casually glancing upward, the silver and black-stemmed birches, with their characteristic tufts, the pale grey boughs of beech, the dark-creviced…

— Thomas Hardy

“The charming grass, elegant water, fascinating winds, admirable rocks and delicate sands are never alone.”

— Delano Johnson

“The buildings, covered by red tiled roofs, undulate over the hillsides like a drift of wildflowers.”

— Jane Thompson

“Big, bulbous, ruddy buildings with vast ballrooms, grand, angular staircases, and as many turrets and crenellations as a recreational condom. The”

— Douglas Adams

“Before us, over the tree tops, we beheld a great field of open sea to the East. Sheer above us rose single pines, black…

— Robert Louis Stevenson