Blackberries Quote by Robert Michael Pyle

We sometimes meet uncivil men, children of Amazons, who dwell by mountain paths, and are said to be inhospitable to strangers; whose salutation is…

— Henry David Thoreau

When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped…

— Mary Oliver

I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and…

— M. John Harrison

“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

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity;…

— John Muir

“In the rainy season, back home, when the land had given way to water and the buffaloes grew webbed feet, when the hens took…

— Monica Ali

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity;…

— John Muir

'Tis the world-old way of the rain When it comes to a mountain farm To exact for a present gain A little of future…

— Anonymous

“Knowing that there was such a thing as outdoors bred in us a hunger for property, for ownership. The firm possession of a yard,…

— Toni Morrison

Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies!…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

“I seemed to be walking on and on forever through a peaceful, languid garden of rice paddies. This was no longer the territory of…

— Michio Takeyama

“In May, when the grass was so green it hurt to look at it, the air so overpoweringly sweet you had to go in…

— Jane Hamilton