Fields

Famous quotes containing the word fields:

“O do not grieve
for a torn earth
barren fields burnt forests
cracked riven volcano-broken
hill-slopes islands shrunken
mountains lost.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“I don’t know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.”
—Otis Criblecoblis, U.S. screenwriter. W.C. Fields (W.C. Fields)

“I have passed down the river before sunrise on a summer morning, between fields of lilies still shut in sleep; and when, at length, the flakes of sunlight from over the bank fell on the surface of the water, whole fields of white blossoms seemed to flash open before me, as I floated along, like the unfolding of a banner, so sensible is this flower to the influence of the sun’s rays.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)