Quote by William Gay

“A full moon, although less splendid than that earlier on,lit everything around. Before I reached the point where I would have to leave the…

— Saramago, José

“Often in the morning they rode out along the tracks on Easter and took their lunch and once rode as far as the little…

— Kent Haruf

“The trees had long since dropped their colorful matntles of leaves. The grass had gone dormant and lay dry and beaten down, as if…

— Susan Wiggs

“...raised herself on one round elbow and looked out on a tiny river like a gleaming blue snake winding itself around a purple hill.…

— L.M. Montgomery

“In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Behind him the hill are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes…

— Thomas Hardy

“It was almost twilight, long shadows of oaks and chestnuts crossing the unpaved road leading away from the village. This part of England had…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Daylight would have shown a wilderness weathered and blowzy, a wanton that had lived her summer too fast and too greedily. It would have…

— Irvin S. Cobb

“Outside, I shivered in a landscape of greys and silvers, the stone walls and cobbles looming pale in the wintry air. The only true…

— Martine Bailey

“The men went into the barley fields at daybreak. All morning, they scythed the rippling grass with great howling strokes, and then they spread…

— Katherine Arden

“Outside, the moon is up - the harvest moon over harvest fields. It casts a sheen upon the empty stubbles, the bare rounding slopes,…

— Adrian Bell

“The moon was coming slowly up over the hill in front of them. The countryside was bathed in light, pale and cold and silvery.…

— Enid Blyton