Ants Quote by Toni Morrison

I was stuck on the side of a mountain in Scotland. I was looking down on emptiness. I lay on my back and looked…

— Ivor Cutler

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

— Stephen Dunn

When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what…

— John Muir

I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part…

— Anonymous

A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my…

— Anne Rice

I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I sat there…

— Richard Brautigan

I was sitting outside in our backyard on a summer day, I was around six, and suddenly the whole world dissolved before my eyes…

— Frederick Lenz

I remember very vividly being little and bringing my lunch to school and taking out what was my to-die-for treats from home, whether it…

— Michelle Wu

When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people,…

— Kim Hyesoon

When I was six years old I sprinkled sugar on my head, convinced myself it was pixie dust, wished myself invisible, and walked into…

— Janet Evanovich

I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I…

— Mary Oliver