Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

“May the Shire live for ever unwithered!”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“overgrown fields, obviously abandoned. We must be getting close to the next village, which was just as well. The sun was approaching the horizon,…

— Kiran Millwood Hargrave

“It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a screaming line…

— John Buchan

“They stood in the noon of that strange and solemn splendor, as if it were the light that is to reveal all secrets, and…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“...no doubt much will be said elsewhere by the armies of bigotry and punditry. Let them volley and thunder. I'll speak of bookish things.”

— Salman Rushdie

“These, then, are the wise men, the lights of the world. Alas, alas! I had hoped for other things; here, as peasants in a…

— Ioannes Amos Comenius

“I see a time when the farmer will not need to live in a lonely cabin on a lonely farm. I see the farmers…

— Hamlin Garland

“Talk was a commonplace that did not belong to this enchanted time and place. A big moon was rising over the Cove. The wind…

— L.M. Montgomery

“...and when the Assembly arrived at Dusk I hasten'd into the Streets and made my self a child of Hazard. There was a Band…

— Peter Ackroyd

“Words full of kindness; they are noble truth and eternal light, on the dew drops of the innocent morning.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“On all sides I could hear the creaking of the bedsteads, as the brethren of Blithedale started from slumber, and thrust themselves into their…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne