Animal Quote by Felix Marti-Ibanez

The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered…

— James Carlos Blake

It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.

— Margaret Atwood

“Taut, merry, nervous, expertly mounted, exquisitely clothed, haughty in their bright youth, the chevaliers of France poured from the disheveled clearing. Sunlit, all that…

— Dorothy Dunnett

[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.

— Mary Mapes Dodge

“them reminded him of all he had experienced and learned during these weeks and this recollection was pleasant to him. For some days the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Do you not wish that the poor little children who live in dirty courts and play in the gutters had some of the care…

— Edwin Henry Landseer

“Sometimes, she said, she could recognize a place just by the quality of the light. In Lisbon, the light at the end of spring…

— José Eduardo Agualusa

An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.

— Marlene Dietrich

The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

— Raymond Chandler

Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with blossomfoam, like…

— Tony Hoagland

Spindly branches of buttercups were secreted among gleaming stems still moist at the roots from last night's rain that had washedand refreshed the entire…

— Angela Carter