Evening Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien

“The night folded around them with a sweetness and poignancy heightened by the new pale stars that prickled silver fire in the water of…

— Pauline Gedge

I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though…

— Richard Aldington

“Sometimes on late summer nights, when the sky is perfect and our parents are in a good enough mood to let us, we meet…

— Jacquelyn Eubanks

On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding…

— Aldo Leopold

“Mother’s estate—our estate—a thousand acres centered in a million more. Lawns the size of small prairies with grass so perfect it beckoned a body…

— Dan Simmons

Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to tuck up…

— Celia Thaxter

“The ripe, the golden month has come again, and in Virginia the chinkapins are falling. Frost sharps the middle music of the seasons, and…

— Thomas Wolfe

Peace to these little broken leaves, That strew our common ground; That chase their tails, like silly dogs, As they go round and round.…

— W. H. Davies

Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“It was on the warmest days when I saw them most clearly, days when the sun dawdled high in the sky, tinting everything with…

— Hazel Gaynor

“At night on land migrating monarchs slumber on certain trees, hung in festoons with wings folded together, thick on the trees and shaggy as…

— Annie Dillard

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through…

— Emily Bronte