Fence Quote by Joseph Conrad

“From the vast, invisible ocean of moonlight overhead fell, here and here, a slender, broken stream that seemed to plash against the intercepting branches…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Like everyone, I had,on many previous occasions, ignored a half-open door leading elsewhere - in the chilly passages of strange houses, in backyards, on…

— Michel Ajvaz

“Once beyond the village, where the cottages ceased abruptly, on either side of the road they could smell through the darkness the friendly fields…

— Kenneth Grahame

“The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our…

— Joseph Conrad

The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in…

— Charles Dickens

Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest…

— John Burroughs

“The unchecked growth of many summers, rising and declining, has lessened the penetration of the light in a way one rarely sees in farmland…

— J.A. Baker

“In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge at last…

— Jay Woodman

To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

— John F. Carlson

Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep,…

— Oscar Wilde

“the forest glowered in the evening light, surrounding the town with its secrets and its plots, casting dark shadows on their lives. To her…

— Patricia Forde

“Then in the darkness and purity of the meadows he began to feel that the world had many secrets, that they were shattering even…

— Mark Helprin