Quote by John McGahern

“I've always longed to have a patch of personal wilderness. Of waist-high grass entwined with wildflowers through which I can prance; within which I…

— Sara Baume

“She rolled over and stretched, blinking up at the blue sky. The tips of the long grasses swished gently in the breeze. The hot…

— Elizabeth George Speare

“Now on a sloping meadow hours into a fresh day, he found himself a desperate man, struggling to free himself from the shackles of…

— Simon Van Booy

“Would that I could gather your houses into my hand, and like a sower scatter them in forest and meadow. Would the valleys were…

— Kahlil Gibran

“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

“The field was empty now. The grasses had been laid flat by more than one game played there, but in the center of it…

— Jennifer A. Nielsen

“The sound of carriage wheels and horses was faint,seeming more distant than they actually were. Drops of water clung to the wool of my…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“Sometimes I stand in the grass barefooted and let the Earth heal me.”

— Christophe Barton

“There was so much time that marvelous summer. Day after day, mist rose from the meadow as the sky lightened and hedges, barns and…

— J.L. Carr

“Sometimes, we strike into the skirting mud, to avoid the stones that clatter us and shake us; sometimes, we stick in ruts and sloughs…

— Charles Dickens

“I remember going home at night, exhausted, feeling like I was balancing on the backs of a herd of horses—only some of the horses…

— Ed Catmull

“So they stood upon the shores of Faith and felt the old dogmas and certainties ebbing away rapidly under their feet and between their…

— David Lodge