Books Quote by Homer Hickam

The mining towns I describe in the 'Helium-3' novel series are not unlike Coalwood, but there is one major difference: Those towns, rather than…

— Homer Hickam

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

— Anthony Trollope

Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“These days I live in a magical little village on Dartmoor in Devon, England, and my "special spot" is a moss-covered rock in a…

— Terri Windling

The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild…

— John Burnside

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It takes all…

— Kenneth Grahame

The wildwood is everywhere. It's inside us. It's outside us. And, of course, if you happen to be near any of the more ancient…

— John Matthews

I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my minds eye - as,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I grew up in New England, and the woods behind my house seemed haunted by New England's past.

— Robert Eggers

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

— Anselm Kiefer

I've always seen places as being very deeply connected to the experience that people have in those places. I think that probably comes through…

— Tana French

In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.

— Marilyn Monroe