Acres Quote by Emily Dickinson

“It was not the site of the earth which surprised him – it was the smell. .... This earth and air smelled alive. There…

— Cordwainer Smith

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain…

— Black Elk

“I should have known,” he whispered. “I am the rain.” And yet he looked dully down the mountains of his body where the hills…

— John Steinbeck

From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.

— Larry McMurtry

And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and…

— Ray Bradbury

“He thought he could hear the hum of the universe as he sat there. The airwaves of God, maybe, that kept the whole lunatic…

— Douglas Clegg

He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.

— Alice Hoffman

“To the east, the full light of day beamed toward you; to the west, night reigned with no hint of surrender. No philosopher can…

— Paul Kalanithi

Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea’s black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched…

— Cormac McCarthy

How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and…

— Ernest Hemingway

On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the…

— Ben Sherwood