Land Quote by Wendell Berry

“He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“Crossing the prairie he had learned something that he knew to be a contradiction: that a constant sound—like the slithering of wind-blown grass—can become…

— Mark Warren

“If my self was my dwelling, then my body resembled an orchard that surrounded it. I could either cultivate that orchard to its capacity…

— yukio mishima

“He knew it even before he could fully articulate it: between East and West lay a terrain that needed to be charted by stories,…

— Andrew Lam

“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving…

— Adelle Waldman

“All that day he travelled, laying his course by the rounding sun. The forest seemed interminable; nowhere did he discover a break in it,…

— Ambrose Bierce

“He understood the impact of his question, his words falling like stones into a shadowy lake—on the surface things return to normal, but in…

— Shades of Gray

“He had missed the deepest of all companionships, a relation with the earth itself, with a countryside and a people. That relationship he knew…

— Willa Cather

“And there came to him a feeling which he had often had before in many different places--that he himself was a part of all…

— Earnest Poole

“He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely…

— Patrick Süskind