Band Quote by Gretel Ehrlich

“Red-bellied hummingbirds and hard-beaked toucans banked in the mist rising up in wet clouds. The air shook around jagged rock columns that thrust from…

— Jeffrey Marcus Oshins

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas.

— Renee Zellweger

“THE LILIES This morning it was, on the pavement, When that smell hit me again And set the houses reeling. People passed like rain:…

— Doris Lessing

“The sky darkened, the liquid singing of the blackbirds diminished and ceased, mud hens swam back to shore, climbed up the banks and huddled…

— Leonard Gardner

“the smell of resin filled the air. A thrush was singing somewhere. Late harebells were thick among the grass, and small blue butterflies moved…

— Mary Stewart

Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“There were rockets like a flock of scintillating birds singing with sweet voices. There were green trees with trunks of dark smoke: their leaves…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Our first assigment was at a place the old maps called Telezon. A rare town not planted on a lake, it was surrounded by…

— Andrea K. Höst

I think the sea swallowed dozens of tea sets - tossed in abandon off liners or consigned to the tide by jilted brides. I…

— Sylvia Plath

About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days,…

— Joshua Slocum

Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through…

— Virginia Woolf

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue…

— Francis Parkman