Damsels Quote by John Milton

“Forests to the [early] Northern European peoples were dangerous and generous, domestic and wild, beautiful and terrible. And the forests were the terrain out…

— Sara Maitland

“I believe that the great stretches of forests in northern Europe, with their constant seasonal changes, their restricted views, their astonish biological diversity, their…

— Sara Maitland

Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?

— William Shakespeare

“…This place was once like your Enchanted Forest is- home to tens of thousands of fairies. But that was many ages ago, before the…

— Christopher Daniel Mechling

Did you ever hear Of the frolic fairies dear? They're a blessed little race, Peeping up in fancy's face, In the valley, on the…

— Frances Sargent Osgood

“Enchanted castle corridors are the right place to "get in" research on fairy tales - it's a fairy tale, and fairy tales who writes,…

— Penina Mezei

“The river - with the sunlight flashing from its dancing wavelets, gilding gold the grey-green beech-trunks, glinting through the dark, cool wood paths, chasing…

— Jerome K. Jerome

At Halloween, when fairy sprites Perform their mystic gambols, When ilka witch her neebour greets, On their nocturnal rambles; When elves at midnight-hour are…

— Janet Little

Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!

— William Wordsworth

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.

— Lily Collins

I know of the leafy paths that the witches take Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool, And their…

— William Butler Yeats

“The Angevin country begins between Normandy and Brittainy and continues down through Maine and Anjou. In the Middle Ages, this fair and romantic land…

— Thomas B. Costain