Leaves and flowers Quote by Jeffrey Marcus Oshins

“THE LILIES This morning it was, on the pavement, When that smell hit me again And set the houses reeling. People passed like rain:…

— Doris Lessing

As fog moved to the mainland I heard a flock of birds fly over. They sounded like a dress rustling, a dress being unfastened…

— Gretel Ehrlich

“The sky darkened, the liquid singing of the blackbirds diminished and ceased, mud hens swam back to shore, climbed up the banks and huddled…

— Leonard Gardner

The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around;…

— Charles Dickens

“There is a steady dripping sound of yesterday’s rain sliding down branches and splashing on rocks, into the stream, or onto the soft ground.…

— Erica Crouch

“Yesterday I noticed a scent of bark outside that I had not smelled in years. While the bark lingered in my nose, flushing out…

— Jonathan Hull

“During the night a fine, delicate summer rain had washed the plains, leaving the morning sky crisp and clean. The sun shone warm—soon to…

— Cate Campbell Beatty

“He liked the splash of the river and the night things that gathered there: katydids and crickets, frogs and cicadas. At night the smell…

— Silas House

Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through…

— Virginia Woolf

It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees,…

— Flora Thompson

“was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere. Red. Red. Red. Dozens…

— Lauren Oliver

“the smell of resin filled the air. A thrush was singing somewhere. Late harebells were thick among the grass, and small blue butterflies moved…

— Mary Stewart