Boxes Quote by Haruo Shirane

The snow has left the cottage top; The thatch moss grows in brighter green; And eaves in quick succession drop, Where grinning icicles have…

— John Clare

... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping hare is…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now…

— Vera Nazarian

You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds…

— Joseph Kanon

“They cleared swiftly, dramatically, like a stage set or a movie; we went from black to stunning blue, the day emerging at once wet…

— Lauren Slater

“And, sure enough, saturation begins--the staedy work of seeps and springs. Then, suddenly, cottonwoods and willows spring from the sand, their leaves gyrating into…

— Amy Irvine

“You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected image. The drop…

— Carl Sagan

“They set off through the soft lingering light. One cuckoo in the depths of Layer Wood and one in the dense shrubbery of the…

— Norah Lofts

“This twinned twinkle was delightful but not completely satisfying; or rather it only sharpened my appetite for other tidbits of light and shade, and…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“My eyes blinked like a camera shutter clicking through the frames of my life, except the images were mismatched and haphazard: a ragged-looking doll…

— Sarah Jio

It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers,…

— Virginia Woolf

There's a country spread out in the sky, a credulous carpet of rainbows and crepuscular plants: I move toward it just a bit haggardly,…

— Pablo Neruda