Afternoon Quote by George Washington Cable

In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“And then the rains came. They came down from the hills and up from the sound. And it rained a sickness. And it rained…

— Tom Robbins

“Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big…

— Joseph Conrad

“The tall, stately pines that grew in drier soils soon gave way to the curving, dripping beauty of the cypress that thrived in the…

— Eliza Maxwell

“The great wall of vegetation, an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks, branches, leaves, boughs, festoons, motionless in the moonlight, was like a rioting…

— Joseph Conrad

A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of…

— Jack London

“down the dank mouldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates and past…

— Homer

“We killed them all when we came here. The people came and burned their land The forests where they used to feed We burned…

— Neil Gaiman

“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

Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

What will happen to the spirit of this ancient dreaming land without the great mobs of kangaroos bounding across the song lines, energizing the…

— Sue Arnold

The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a…

— Annie Dillard