City Quote by Évariste Régis Huc

“[...] It is not humanity that will tear the land asunder, but a certain inhumanity born from ingratitude and the explosion of souls_ in…

— Anouar Majid

“To augment their misery, a contagious disorder of a dangerous nature spread through the land; and, rendered more virulent by the uncleanness, the indifferent…

— Walter Scott

“And the air was rent with cries of the living glaring at the rotted bones and rags of their kin and friends just a-swingin…

— Sarah E Wright

“A garden did not need people in order to be alive and natural. The flowers might have died, and the last leaves might be…

— Madeline Hunter

“I was reminded ... the way that wood crumbles into dissolution.’ ‘The release of energy. Perhaps a better way of seeing it.’ ‘Such release…

— Steven Erikson

“The seed we bury in soil, Flourish, even after we die.”

— Neymat Khan

“I was oppressed by the sense of universal strangeness, by the chill of approaching catastrophe, the menace of ruins suspended above; and also by…

— Anna Kavan

“For these lands, and, I say, especially the northern parts of America, suffered so terribly from the full force of the last days of…

— William Morris

“But the great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.…

— Willa Cather

“It has happened. It is over. They fled. They mourned. Until grief had turned stony, too, and they came back. Awed by the completeness…

— Susan Sontag

“What a waste of beauty, what a waste of knowledge a sudden death can inflict, like spilling something vital away into dry soil.”

— Jane Borodale

“For what was civilization but the intellect’s ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely…

— Amor Towles