Landscape Quote by Thomas Hardy

“His eyes settled due west and gazed through the silhouetted, leaf-bare branches to the now-black rolling hills of the mountains he called home. The…

— Teresa Tysinger

“backgrounds, shadowy rock and tree, and chasing him up and down soot-gray hills and dales for all he was”

— James Snyder

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

— Arthur Machen

“I looked up from that churning amphitheater to the view beyond it. The great, gray eye of the sky looked back at me, its…

— Sylvia Plath

“It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness, little unilluminating…

— Sinclair Ross

“The day has passed rapidly, or so it felt. I can barely believe the sun has already set behind the pale sandy hills. And…

— Ingrid Nickelsen

“The Hill I have come this far on my own legs, missing the bus, missing taxis, climbing always. One foot in front of the…

— Mark Strand

“The rain had ripened all the country around and the roadside grass was luminous and green from the run-off and flowers were in bloom…

— Cormac McCarthy

“When he rose and turned to go back the tarp was lit from within where the boy had wakened. Sited there in the darkness…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He gazed into the darkness at the flickering shadows. Above the tops of the trees on the opposite side of the river, he could…

— Catherine Anderson

“All that night he followed bends of the black road jeweled by starlight until the wan light of the dawn touched the east with…

— Robert Olmstead

“They drove out of the driveway and onto the road, venturing forth into the horizon, spacious and empty, hanging before them blackly, and offering…

— R.J. Lawrence