Capes Quote by William Bligh

The next day the Indian told me their name for this light,--artoosoq',--and on my inquiring concerning the will-o'-the-wisp, and the like phenomena, he said…

— Henry David Thoreau

We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the…

— Charles Sturt

“An oceanic expanse of pre-dawn gray white below obscures a checkered grid of Saskatchewan, a snow plain nicked by the dark, unruly lines of…

— Barry Lopez

When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble…

— Henry David Thoreau

I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost…

— Millard Kaufman

When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses…

— James Joyce

During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the…

— Helen Keller

I've stood outside my house in Montana looking at the northern lights... crackling against the night sky. To me, that's magic.

— Christopher Paolini

The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean…

— Iain Sinclair

For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I wish I could remember the first day, First hour, first moment of your meeting me; If bright or dim the season it might…

— Christina Rossetti

By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my…

— Mitch Albom