Quote by T.R. Pearson

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how…

— Octavia E. Butler

“I went outside mournful, and I hit pure air. The air was full of birdsong. I went outside expecting rain but it was sunny,…

— Ali Smith

“Some days I like to wander to old and warn our places, forests ripped apart by man and streams that carry stagnant water where…

— Nikki Rowe

“The river loved to tell everybody (everybody being the sky, the wind, the few trees that grew around there, birds, deer and even the…

— Richard Brautigan

“Then rain began to fall in an extravagant tantrum. High up in mountain country though we were, every little river became a huge muscled…

— Sebastian Barry

“There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed…

— Paulo Coelho

“It was early evening twilight when we came around a corner… and there in the road was a red deer stag. He leapt up…

— Michelle Frost

“Then the light changed the water, until all about them the woods in the rising wind seemed to grow taller and blow inward together…

— Eudora Welty

“The woods hung dark on the hills; above, the sky violet, specked with minute feathery clouds, white as snowflakes.”

— Arthur Machen

“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.”

— Joseph Conrad

“To me, a forest is just a bunch of trees, but lakes and rivers are alive. Water is to the land what blood is…

— Sam Torode

“The true rain came in a monster wind, and the storm broke in blackness over the hills and the bloody valley; the sky opened…

— Michael Shaara