Garden Quote by Jane Harper Download Open image ““Somewhere in the inky garden the nocturnal insects rattled like white noise.”” — Jane Harper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Garden White noise
“Some believe that the onslaught of insect and animal noises that fill the night air are actually the night’s way of calling spirits to… — Cindy Parmiter Copy Share Image
“Civilizations are the summer noise of insects between two winters.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Alice stopped walking as a dragonfly hovered close. 'Yellow-winged darter.' The name came to mind of its own accord. She watched as the insect flickered towards a nearby garden bed, a spectacular tangle of summer flowers, red, mauve, and brilliant orange. Gardens really were a balm. A bee vacillated between blooms and Alice experienced a sudden flash of all-body memory.… — Kate Morton Copy Share
“Sounds buzz around me, and I'm sure the painted dragonflies have come loose from the frieze on our walls to flap their wings in… — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
“Without sight to get in the way of things, the whole world was suddenly alive with sound: the lapping of water as it washed around the posts below her, the splashing and skimming of ducks as they landed on the lake's surface, the wooden planks stretching beneath the sun's glare. As she listened, Sadie became aware of a thick blanketing… — Kate Morton Copy Share
“There was a tiny silence, only the soft hum of the fluorescence. I thought of her in the cold ruined house, with night birds… — Tana French The Likeness Copy Share Image
“Last night I fell asleep quickly, into a place beyond sleep, deep and silent, the place I imagine caterpillars go to turn into butterflies.” — Sarah Willis Copy Share Image
“But here at Laurelfield, there was something more in the mornings, a buzzing sensation about the whole house, as if it weren't the servants… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
“Our feet whispered through the grass as fireflies flickered in slow circles around” — Emily Bleeker Copy Share Image
“Bees and butterflies, moths and dragonflies, the flowers and the brooks and the clouds.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“A little light in the dark night A faint voice is calling you This way! This way! This flickering, wavering little voice Like dew,… — Natsumi Mukai Copy Share Image
“All day within the dreamy house, The doors upon their hinges creaked; The blue fly sang in the pane; the mouse Behind the mouldering… — Alfred, Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“No-one tells you this is how it’s going to be, do they? Oh yes, they’re all so sorry for your loss, all so keen… — Jane Harper Copy Share Image
“It’s the panic that gets you. Makes it hard to trust what you’re seeing.” — Jane Harper Copy Share Image
“The sooner you say it, Mandy, the sooner I can tell you to mind your own business, and we can all get back to… — Jane Harper Copy Share Image
“Born and bred here, or forever an outsider, seems to be the Kiewarra way.” — Jane Harper Copy Share Image
“Dirty mugs crowded a side table, the recycling bin was overflowing, and stacks of letters stood unopened. It all told a tale of grief… — Jane Harper Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t as though the farm hadn’t seen death before, and the blowflies didn’t discriminate. To them there was little difference between a carcass… — Jane Harper Copy Share Image
“Jesus, Ellie, what’s crawled up your arse? You can’t take a joke all of a sudden?” Luke aimed for lighthearted bravado, fell short. Aaron… — Jane Harper Copy Share Image
“It wasn't any one thing that went wrong, it was a hundred little things.” — Jane Harper Copy Share Image
“Life out here is hard. We all try to get through the best way we can. But trust me, there's not a single person… — Jane Harper Copy Share Image
“They’ll make a gymnastics team, bending over backwards to prove their investigation was sound.” — Jane Harper Copy Share Image
Possessions can possess you. Even a lawn can possess you. It makes you buy a garden hose. Which makes you water. Which cuts into… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing. — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach plants with… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
