Passage of time Quote by Neetha Joseph

“Thus is the earth at once a desert and a paradise, rich in secret hidden gardens, gardens inaccessible, but to which the craft leads…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great tide of…

— Austen Henry Layard

“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a screaming line…

— John Buchan

“I do not envy those whose introduction to nature was lush meadows, lakes, and swamps where life abounds. The desert hills of Yakima had…

— William O. Douglas

“Would the valleys were your streets, and the green paths your alleys, that you might seek one another through vineyards, and come with the…

— Khalil Gibran

“Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farmland the labyrinths that people have imposed between them sometime in the past. I…

— Anonymous

“We don't come fresh to even the most inaccessible of landscapes. ... We carry expectations and to an extent make what we meet conform…

— Robert MacFarlane

“With the advent of farming, human horizons expanded.”

— James Dale Davidson

“These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated…

— Émile Zola

“This land makes me believe anything is possible. Here lies a gift unraveled as was meant to be: within its many folds are men,…

— Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

“Good things lost amid a wilderness of weeds, to be sure, whose rankness far overtopped their neglected growth; yet, notwithstanding, evidence of a wealthy…

— Emily Brontë

“I thought about how we tilled and cultivated the land, planted trees on it, fenced it, built houses on it, and did everything we…

— Craig Johnson