Air Quote by Willa Cather

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden…

— Ellen Glasgow

Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the…

— Peter Mayle

The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered…

— James Carlos Blake

Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness…

— Haruki Murakami

By night we lingered on the lawn, For underfoot the herb was dry; And genial warmth; and o'er the sky The silvery haze of…

— Alfred Tennyson

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue…

— Francis Parkman

It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In…

— Isak Dinesen

We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving…

— Shirley Jackson

The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the…

— Alice Hoffman

Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.

— Alice Hoffman

It was one of those winter days that suddenly dream of spring, when the sky is blue and soft and clear, and the wind…

— Shirley Jackson