Flower Quote by john j geddes

“I turn and walk back to the home shore whose tall yellow bluffs still bare of snow I can see nearly half a mile…

— John Meade Haines

“Home. When it rains, you can smell the leaves in the forest and the sand. It's all so small and mild, the landscape surrounding…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping…

— Wallace Stevens

“Battered by shifing currents and a cold, unrelenting wind, we sailed past deserted islands crowded with pines and a ghost tree growing staight out…

— Marisha Pessl

“She then swung out towards the middle of the lake. It has long been obvious to the meanest of our readers – we allude…

— Angela Thirkell

“But drunkenly, or secretly, we swore, Disciples of that astigmatic saint, That we would never leave the island Until we had put down, in…

— Derek Walcott

“To the shore, to the lake, to anyplace where there are waves and ice cream and umbrellas.”

— Hazel Woods

“What limpid lakes and cool date palms may our caravans have passed untried? Until, one by one, by the blindest of leaps, we light…

— Annie Dillard

“The spruce and cedar on its shores, hung with gray lichens, looked at a distance like the ghosts of trees. Ducks were sailing here…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It was still dark outside and bitter cold although mercifully there was little wind. Why is it calm in the early morning? You will…

— Charles Portis

I flipped through a book on harp seals in the late 1970s and saw images of them swimming in emerald green pools of water…

— Brian Skerry

“I have carted mangolds many times since then, and it is an occasion that always marks for me the beginning of winter. I recall…

— Adrian Bell