Quote by James A. Michener

“He got down easily by dropping uncontrollably from branch to branch until he landed on his head in a pile of pine needles, where…

— Terry Pratchett

“Hey, when two beavers walk into the house, the first one always tells the other one, “Hey, shut the dam door!”

— Si Robertson

“But when day came, with a sprinkle of rain, and he looked about him and saw on every side an unknown woods, wild heaths,…

— C.S. Lewis

“Staring down at the brook, I remembered a stream near Mammoth Lake. We’d parked the camper just above it and, all night, listened to…

— Richard Matheson

“Depth, he decided; as if one were looking into the clear water of the river, down to the bottom, where things might lurk which…

— Lois Lowry

“Then he shifts a little and points to a page in an open book before us. “There,” he says. “River. That’s one of the…

— Ally Condie

“The sky was low and broody, but from here, near the treeline, you could see the forest rolling down into the valley, the lake…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Then rain began to fall in an extravagant tantrum. High up in mountain country though we were, every little river became a huge muscled…

— Sebastian Barry

“In my mind, a stream ran and snow fell, and we said good-bye on the bank, and I took to the water and he…

— Ally Condie

“Maybe the path went in a circle. Maybe there was a more gradual, friendly slope back up the mountain so he wouldn't have to…

— Drew Magary

“It is through the valley that one reaches the mountain top. I need but take one step at a time until I reach the…

— Lynne Jordan

“His eyes settled due west and gazed through the silhouetted, leaf-bare branches to the now-black rolling hills of the mountains he called home. The…

— Teresa Tysinger