Bird Quote by Henry David Thoreau

You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and you almost…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Though men in their hundreds of thousands had tried their hardest to disfigure that little corner of the earth where they had crowded themselves…

— Leo Tolstoy

And there were times when one yielded quite shamelessly to the sentimental. They were more likely to be times of crickets, I think, than…

— Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

“The Troubadours Etc." Just for this evening, let's not mock them. Not their curtsies or cross-garters or ever-recurring pepper trees in their gardens promising,…

— Mary Szybist

“Same day, 11 o'clock p. m..—Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I had made my diary a duty I should…

— Bram Stoker

“Oh how lovely to hear the birds!’ an elderly friend recently exclaimed. I smiled, ‘Yes, isn’t it?’ Actually it reminded me of living in…

— Emily Benet

I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants that have…

— John Webster

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts,…

— Edward Thomas

“Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I’d always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick,…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“The weather is quite delicious. Yesterday, after writing to you, I strolled a little beyond the glade for an hour and a half and…

— Charles Darwin

ADAMSBERG WAS NOT A MAN WHO WENT IN FOR EMOTION: he skirted around strong feelings with caution, like swifts who only brush past windows…

— Fred Vargas

“The journey simultaneously holds the contraries of solitary longing and relatedness to community, as Shaw tells us: “It’s an extraordinary, indigenous idea that to…

— Martin Shaw