George-macdonald Quote by George MacDonald

“Hence in solitude, or that deserted state when we are surrounded by human beings and yet they sympathize not with us, we love the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Some mornings I walked out into the courtyard and every living thing there, the seagulls and wagtails, the small trees, and even the stray…

— Nelson Mandela

“My woodland lair was beautiful: a clearing that was green with life. It smelt of summer and rain and newness. It was patterned with…

— Gillian Philip

“He enjoyed the soft sound of night wind and the knowledge that he was the only boy — perhaps the only human being —…

— Dan Simmons

“Sometimes, on days when the weather was beyond redemption, mere residence in the house, situated in the midst of a steady and continuous rain,…

— Marcel Proust

“ Autumn Dusk I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep…

— Sara Teasdale

“That horror which stalks in the stillness of the noonday, when the glare of an artificial sunshine lights up the motionless trees, moved all…

— Algernon Blackwood

“As I walked down the sidewalk, it felt like everything around me was listening. The asphalt heard my thoughts, and the building around me…

— Burbuqe Raufi

“But the stillness and the brightness of the day were as strange as the chaos and tumult of night, with the trees standing there,…

— Virginia Woolf

“The eeriness of the weeping moss from the trees, reminding me of shrouds covering the faces of mourners. There are people coming home from…

— Rachel Renee

“the sun was up so high when i waked, that i judged it was after eight o’clock. i laid there in the grass and…

— Mark Twain

“Summer mornings, the light of the world pouring in and the silence. It was a barefoot life, the cool of the night on the…

— James Salter