Fields

Famous quotes containing the word fields:

    The landscape was clothed in a mild and quiet light, in which the woods and fences checkered and partitioned it with new regularity, and rough and uneven fields stretched away with lawn-like smoothness to the horizon, and the clouds, finely distinct and picturesque, seemed a fit drapery to hang over fairyland. The world seemed decked for some holiday or prouder pageantry ... like a green lane into a country maze, at the season when fruit-trees are in blossom.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Mantled in grey, the dusk steals slowly in,
    Crossing the dead, dull fields with footsteps cold.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    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)