Quote by Samuel Shellabarger

“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

“If only the herdsman had not brought him up with the flocks, not reared him, Paris, Alexander, to watch his flock by the clear…

— Euripides

“High Pasture Come up--come up: in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the…

— Edith Wharton

“The gardener hath gathered up this autumn's leaves. Who shall see them again, or who wot of them? And who shall say what hath…

— Lord Dunsany

“That day I oft remember, when from sleep I first awaked, and found myself reposed, Under a shade, on flowers, much wondering where And…

— John Milton

“With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with my own hand labour'd it to grow: And this was all the Harvest…

— Edward FitzGerald

“But he was so young then that later he was only able to remember fragments of what happened next: the lull of the morning…

— Téa Obreht

“I forgot that with the green, the plushness, and shiny plant life that pushed up and surrounded us, with the nourishment it provided came—the…

— Lauren Nicolle Taylor

“But while admiring my neighbour, I don't think I shall ever try to follow in her steps, my talents not being of the energetic…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“And like blots upon the landscape rose the cupolas above the ways to the Underworld. I understood now what all the beauty of the…

— H.G. Wells

“That wind! ...it called to mind the small, scarce, stemmy flowers that she and Edmund would walk half a day to pick, though in…

— Marilynne Robinson

“When she had discovered that I hungered to learn, she commenced to shovel knowledge my way as vigorously as she spaded the cowpats into…

— Geraldine Brooks