Book Quote by George Eliot

“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

“The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The work satisfied something deeper in him than his own desire. It was as if he went to his fields in the spring, not…

— Wendell Berry

A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.

— Rex Stout

If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get…

— Carl Jung

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

— C. S. Lewis

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

— Anonymous

“Mother’s estate—our estate—a thousand acres centered in a million more. Lawns the size of small prairies with grass so perfect it beckoned a body…

— Dan Simmons

“The hedge allowed us a glimpse, inside the park, of an alley bordered with jasmine, pansies, and verbenas, among which the stocks held open…

— Marcel Proust

“What was it like then to witness the transformation wrought by this construction? A geometric idea of precision suddenly imposed on a landscape, lived…

— Susan Griffin

Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.

— Gilbert White

Vagabonding is an attitude — a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid…

— Rolf Potts