Fields

Famous quotes containing the word fields:

“The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)

“The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

“But famished field and blackened tree
Bear flowers in Eden never known.
Blossoms of grief and charity
Bloom in these darkened fields alone.”
—Edwin Muir (1887–1959)