Nature Quote by Michael Finkel

“And the boat and the dock and the gravel on the shore, the trees sky-pointed or crouching, leaning out over the water, the complicated…

— Alice Munro

“Wholly absorbed into my own conduits to an inner nature or subterranean lake the depths or bounds of which I more and more explore…

— Charles Olson

A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories... grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a place but…

— Peter Orner

“Intuition is our knight in white, shining armor, there to help us claim our kingdom in the bold time of life.”

— Jeanne McElvaney

Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?

— John Keats

“The River', a poem from 'Profound Vers-A-Tales': Your perception of my exterior may not match what lies beneath the surface.”

— Kamil Ali

“My eyes wandered over the wall of pines circling the water. A short walk through these woods can yield tales as ancient as the…

— Bryan Wiggins

“Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“With his release imminent, Knight seems more unsettled than ever. He scratches furiously at his knees. Jail, he's realized, might not be all bad.…

— Michael Finkel

“I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am…

— William Cowper

“Beyond the rapids themselves, the river also concealed a host of other obstacles, wicked spots whose names offered a sufficiently graphic warning of what…

— Kevin Fedarko