Quote by Jules Verne

“In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All around the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing…

— Alfred Tennyson

“I travelled through the Northwest considerably during the winter of 1860-61. We had customers in all the little towns in southwest Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“Great laughter rang from all sides. I wondered what the Spirit of the Mountain was thinking, and looked up and saw jackpines in the…

— Jack Kerouac

“Great laughter rang from all sides. I wondered what the spirit of the Mountain was thinking; and looked up and saw jackpines in the…

— Jack Kerouac

“That day of battle in the dusty heat We lay and heard the bullets swish and sing Like scythes amid the over-ripened wheat, And…

— John McCrae

“It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into…

— John Muir

I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for…

— John Steinbeck

“They read the long afternoon through, while the cold November rain fell from the sky upon the quiet house.”

— Ray Bradbury

“In the desert, words are a waste of water. In the ocean, speech will drown one.”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

“They captured in their ramble all the mysteries and magics of a March evening. Very still and mild it was, wrapped in a great,…

— L.M. Montgomery

“The cold wind blew unceasingly from the north: a violent wind, a merciless wind, a wind that crept inside your ears and pressed hard…

— John Forrester

It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message…

— P. G. Wodehouse