Ancient greece Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“A vast field opened like a blossoming tulip, flowers blooming in the rippling airs of spring. High and frothy trees hugged air and sun…

— Paul Andreas Wunderlich

“Nothing grows among its pinnacles; there is no shade except under great toadstools of sandstone whose bases have been eaten to the shape of…

— Anonymous

“It was the clouds I saw first. Enormous clouds drifting in the cobalt sky, soft and magnanimous, still tinged by the rose remnants of…

— Sarah J. Maas

“But all of a sudden the scene changed; it was the memory, no longer of old impressions but of an old desire, only recently…

— Marcel Proust

“It was an unusual sunset. Having sat behind opaque drapery all day, I had not realized that a storm was pushing in and that…

— Thomas Ligotti

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another....

— Joseph Joubert

The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.

— John Lyly

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors.…

— Oscar Wilde

“The mossy marbles rest On lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more…

— Anonymous

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You must know, my loved one, that there are beings in the elements which almost appear like mortals, and which rarely allow themselves to…

— Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué