Ashes Quote by Henry David Thoreau

...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.

— Patricia A. McKillip

“The territory through which we passed had been overbuilt in the days over the Secular Ancients, but only a few traces of that exuberant…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“This was a valley of ashes – a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-and the ancient forest began to smoke.…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void.”

— Cormac McCarthy

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them. But each…

— Marcel Proust

“There were hundreds of worlds like it, most of them littered with the usual Elder Culture ruins, the usual secrets waiting to be unlocked.…

— Paul McAuley

“A long suburb of red brick houses -some with patches of garden-ground, where coal-dust and factory smoke darkened the shrinking leaves, and coarse rank…

— Charles Dickens

“To explain this Matter, and to wind up Time so that I am returned to my present State: Beside my Church at Limehouse there…

— Peter Ackroyd

If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that…

— Georges Cuvier