Ethan-frome Quote by Edith Wharton

“Everything waits and moves. Our hearts, beating. The stars, wheeling over the spruce trees.”

— Beth Powning

“The awesome silence of the place crept up on her. The spruce and pines, all still laden with snow, spread their limbs in a…

— Graham Joyce

“The wood was silent, still and secret in the evening drizzle of rain, full of the mystery of eggs and half-open buds, half unsheathed…

— D.H. Lawrence

“The forest is blanketed by the greenest ferns and moss and bonsai-like trees, a wild majesty that beckons hobbits and pixies and elves and…

— Shannon M Mullen

“...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

“In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge at last…

— Jay Woodman

“As the glow of the cabin windows turned to flickers through the trees and then to black, her eyes adjusted and the starlight alone…

— Eowyn Ivey

“Between the dark, heavily laden treetops of the spreading chestnut trees could be seen the dark blue of the sky, full of stars, all…

— Hermann Hesse

“The pale stars were sliding into their places. The whispering of the leaves was almost hushed. All about them it was still and shadowy…

— Olivia Howard Dunbar

“Here in the shadow of the firs lay everything the old house had spat out in the course of its life, everything worn out…

— Tove Jansson

“They fluttered and rustled ceaselessly through the air from all the tree-tops and branches. A delicate silvery sound was falling constantly to earth. It…

— Felix Salten

“The blur of looming evergreens zipped by me so quickly it was as though they were never really there at all. Sometimes I felt…

— Bianca Scardoni