Air Quote by Marilynne Robinson

Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see…

— John Burnham Schwartz

What if all ponds were shallow? Would it not react on the minds of men? I am thankful that this pond was made deep…

— Henry David Thoreau (1817_1862

“The pond garden is an intricate phenomenon coalescing the intent and will of various people of influence living at various times.”

— Norris Brock Johnson

As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of…

— Loren Eiseley

And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses of frogs,…

— Susan Branch

At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It…

— Mary Oliver

“And, sure enough, saturation begins--the staedy work of seeps and springs. Then, suddenly, cottonwoods and willows spring from the sand, their leaves gyrating into…

— Amy Irvine

The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But…

— Friedrich Holderlin

Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in

— Yoko Ono

We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving…

— Shirley Jackson

I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a…

— Bobbie Ann Mason

And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.

— Maxine Kumin