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“Trees, skies, valleys mountains, seen through the rain-spotted windshield, were like a distorted, stippled landscape painted by a beginner who has not yet learned…

— Stella Benson

I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that ourlife should…

— Henry David Thoreau

What change has made the pastures sweet And reached the daisies at my feet, And cloud that wears a golden hem? This lovely world,…

— Jean Ingelow

“The sun shined and winked through wind-rustled leaves to paint the roadway with an ever-shifting mosaic of light and shadows.”

— Anonymous

“The sun, emerged from its gray shrouds of cloud, shone with a summer brilliance on the untouched slopes. Pausing in my work to overlook…

— Sylvia Plath

“And there, with their gables lifting into the sunlight above deep hedgerows beautiful with spring. He saw the cottages of earthly men. Past them…

— Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany

So with the stretch of the white road before me, Shining snow crystals rainbowed by the sun, Fields that are white, stained with long,…

— Amy Lowell

I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have…

— John Muir

“Behind the building rose towering, aged pine trees whose shadows fell crabbed and arthritic across the lawn. The lawn was expansive and in good,…

— Walter Kirn

(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

— Marsden Hartley

“Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth…

— Robert Macfarlane

Rouen shone in dark sunlight and a storm swept it away from my eyes and churned up the broad river with waves which pounced…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner