Gardening Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“The unchecked growth of many summers, rising and declining, has lessened the penetration of the light in a way one rarely sees in farmland…

— J.A. Baker

“I climbed the hill of firs and looked down over the fields of mist and silver in the moonlight. The shadows of the ferns…

— L.M. Montgomery

“A vast field opened like a blossoming tulip, flowers blooming in the rippling airs of spring. High and frothy trees hugged air and sun…

— Paul Andreas Wunderlich

“So we went for a stroll in Alumni Park, a grassy lawn in front of Pepperdine that overlooks the coast. Deer trickle down from…

— James Russell Lingerfelt

“Methinks I see the sunset light flooding the river valley, the western hills stretching to the horizon, overhung with trees gorgeous and glowing with…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“The light faded slowly, retreating through the trees. The thick mossy trunks grew dense with shadow, edges still rimmed with a fugitive light that…

— Diana Gabaldon

“At the bottom of the ravine was a glittering stream, about two feet in depth and six feet wide. A waterfall plunged from a…

— Hazel Gaynor

“Eccolo!” he exclaimed. At the same moment the ground gave way, and with a cry she fell out of the wood. Light and beauty…

— E.M. Forster

“Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower…

— Priya Ardis

“The weeks up there were almost the most beautiful in my life. I breathed the pure, clear air, drank the icy water from streams…

— Hermann Hesse

“I think of the view from a favorite arroyo in the late afternoon, the east slope still bathed in sunlight, the far slope already…

— Carey McWilliams

“In the Ondariva gardens the branches spread out like the tentacles of extraordinary animals, and the plants on the ground opened up stars of…

— Italo Calvino