Air Quote by Laurie Lee

“the smell of resin filled the air. A thrush was singing somewhere. Late harebells were thick among the grass, and small blue butterflies moved…

— Mary Stewart

“Alice stopped walking as a dragonfly hovered close. 'Yellow-winged darter.' The name came to mind of its own accord. She watched as the insect…

— Kate Morton

The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

“Droughts especially appear to have accompanied the spirits of the dead in bee-form, and for this reason the honey offering was almost always customary…

— Hilda M. Ransome

“Bees and butterflies, moths and dragonflies, the flowers and the brooks and the clouds.”

— George MacDonald

“This time of year, the purple blooms were busy with life- not just the bees, but butterflies and ladybugs, skippers and emerald-toned beetles, flitting…

— Susan Wiggs

“Bees were busy, or at least endeavouring to look and sound busy, in the thyme by the trackside. Cloud shadows flickered over the alpine…

— Terry Pratchett

“In the quarter where the sun should have appeared, the sky was covered by a strange reddish cloud, like smoke, like hot ashes, like…

— Alejo Carpentier

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

— Edvard Munch

It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken…

— Chris Cleave

Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn, hundreds of bees in the purple clover, hundreds of butterflies on the lawn, but only one mother…

— George Cooper