Family Quote by Philip Pullman

“What do they do with those ducks, in the winter?”

— JD Salinger

For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;...…

— Henry David Thoreau

“You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park south?That little lake?By any chance you happen to know where they go?The ducks,When…

— Holden

“The sky darkened, the liquid singing of the blackbirds diminished and ceased, mud hens swam back to shore, climbed up the banks and huddled…

— Leonard Gardner

“And when the spring breezes blow up the valley; when the spring sun shines on last year's withered grass on the river banks; and…

— Halldor Laxness

“I spent my summers at my grandparents’ cabin in Estes Park, literally next door to Rocky Mountain National Park. We had a view of…

— Anonymous

“I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in…

— Bryce Courtenay

“Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with…

— George Eliot

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

— Norris Brock Johnson

“The months came and went, and back and forth they twisted through the uncharted vastness, where no men were and yet where men had…

— Jack London

“The drenched backyard full of runoff, and tiny, slimy, uncertain yard critters who had expected to remain buried in months of hard mud, peeking…

— Nina Riggs

Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a…

— William Allingham