Quote by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

“The people became no less than what they were to begin with—in some cases they became horrifyingly more. They were never destroyed. They were…

— Harper Lee

“These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated…

— Émile Zola

“They dug and they dug, so their day went by for them, their night. And they did not praise God, who, so they heard,…

— Paul Celan

“trivial,—there are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,—are useful.”

— Victor Hugo

“Only the land remained, the silent order of the mountains, the ground covered in fallen dead leaves in the enormous space, a boundless expanse…

— László Krasznahorkai

“Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“And of the Underground Fields (though in that age we called them no more than "The Fields") I should set down a little; for…

— William Hodgenson

“They were evidently people on a low, material plane of existence, and quite incapable of appreciating the symbolic value of sensuous phenomena.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Our backs hut from gathering them: how hard they were to find among the concealing leaves, the frosted deceiving grass.”

— Truman Capote

“paved; and a few empty planters were”

— Torquil MacLeod

“There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation.”

— Victor Hugo

“A garden did not need people in order to be alive and natural. The flowers might have died, and the last leaves might be…

— Madeline Hunter