Behinds Quote by Wendell Berry

“The river seems to be holding itself up before you like a page opened to be read. There is no knowing how the currents…

— Wendell Berry

“On the semi-frozen river below, a duck quacked insistently, sounding like a grumpy old man agruing with a cashier.”

— Chris Pavone

“He sat on the logs, smoking, drying in the sun, the sun warm on his back the river shallow ahead entering the woods, curving…

— Ernest Hemingway

“All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all! Ducks' tails, drakes' tails, Yellow feet a-quiver, Yellow bills all…

— Kenneth Grahame

“Look closer. The river's its own world of fast and slow, deep and shallow, bright and shadowed. If you look at it like that,…

— Cynthia Hand

“The owl,” he was saying, “is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps.…

— M.J. Rose

“One evening he was in his room, his brow pressing hard against the pane, looking, without seeing them, at the chestnut trees in the…

— Théophile Gautier

“Then he shifts a little and points to a page in an open book before us. “There,” he says. “River. That’s one of the…

— Ally Condie

A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or…

— George Mercer Dawson

“Somewhere in the gray wood by the river is the huntsman and in the brooming corn and in the castellated press of cities. His…

— Cormac McCarthy

“as the centre of a thick wood. In this snug retreat sat a duck on her nest, watching for her young brood to hatch;”

— Hans Christian Andersen

“From Woody's Restaurant, Middlebury" Today, noon, a young macho friendly waiter and three diners, business types—two males, one female— are in a quandary about…

— Greg Delanty