Certain Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state…

— Jane Austen

“Towards evening, they wound down precipices, black with forest of cypress, pine and cedar, into a glen so savage and secluded, that, if Solicitude…

— Ann Radcliffe

Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all…

— Henry David Thoreau

“[S]he realized quite abruptly that this thing which took him off, which kept him out so many hours day after day, this thing that…

— Algernon Blackwood

“I would fix my eyes, without limit of time, upon the trunk of a distant tree, from behind which she must appear and spring…

— Marcel Proust

“Many Horses was putting the finishing touches on a bow he had been making when Hunter entered the tepee. Setting the weapon aside, he…

— Catherine Anderson

The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which…

— Henry David Thoreau

“She felt the sap rising through the trees as the blood coursing through her body, the grass sprouting out of the forest floor as…

— Tara Heavey

“Alice haunted the mossy edge of the woods, lingering in patches of shade. She was waiting to hear his Austin-Healey throttle back when he…

— Tracy Guzeman

“When she slowly straightened, the land was vast before her. The sun was setting down the river, casting a cold pink hue along the…

— Eowyn Ivey

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

— Thomas Hardy

“We walked into the forests which encircled the town. I have never liked them, their dark throat, their sullen height, their slump-shouldered gloom. But…

— Sonya Hartnett