Nature Quote by Margaret Atwood

“My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain…

— Alfred Tennyson

“A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee. Ah, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The…

— Margaret Atwood

“Maud in the light of her youth and her grace, Singing of Death, and of Honor that cannot die, Till I well could weep…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“the battered woman--for she wore a skirt--with her right hand exposed, her left clutching at her side, stood singing of love--love which has lasted…

— Virginia Woolf

She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; “Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord…

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“and rocks and creaks and moans in the eternal breeze. Through all ages — when the pavement was grass, when it was swamp, through…

— Virginia Woolf

“Yesterday's rain had left a bitter, springlike smell in the air; the vehemence that beat against her in the street and hummed above her…

— Willa Cather

“She said she hoped she would see me again, and the next thing I knew I was running through light snow back to my…

— Ben Lerner

“Through the silence he could hear the wind moan across a future landscape, sharing Earth’s sorrow, unable to bind up her wounds.”

— P.S. Duffy

“At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude…

— Gustave Flaubert

“And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious…

— Joseph Conrad