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«After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire.»
Author: Charles Krauthammer
| About:
Cities
| Keywords:
antiseptic, backpack, backpacking, commuting, freeway, freeways, great seal, office building, sealed, urge, woods
«Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields»
Author: Christopher Marlowe
(Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Fields, Groves, hills, In a Grove, valleys, woods, yields
«A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.»
Author: George William Curtis
| About:
Country,
Loyalty,
Patriotism,
Principles
| Keywords:
area, land area, loyalty, rivers, woods
«Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.»
Author: John Lubbock
(Biologist, Politician)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
excellent, Fields, lakes, Lake of, mountain, rivers, schoolmasters, the Mountain, The Sea, woods
«A noise like of a hidden brook. / In the leafy month of June, / That to the sleeping woods all night / Singeth a quiet tune.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
brook, June, leafy, month, noise, noise like, sleeping, tune, woods
«At that point, looking remarkable healthy, the skunk gave me the finger (I swear!) and casually strolled back into the woods.»
Author: William Shatner
(Actor, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
casually, Into the Woods, remarkable, skunk, skunks, stroll, strolled, swear, the finger, woods
«A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
righteous, surround, swamps, The Swamp, woods
«As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.»
«For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o?clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago.... William Faulkner, Intruder In The Dust»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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