Indistinct Pale Fringes

Famous quotes containing the words indistinct, pale and/or fringes:

“What is called a road there ... is only an indistinct vista through the wood, which it takes an experienced eye to detect.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.”
—Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 6:8.

“Nature seemed to have adorned herself for our departure with a profusion of fringes and curls, mingled with the bright tints of flowers, reflected in the water. But we missed the white water-lily, which is the queen of river flowers, its reign being over for this season.... Many of this species inhabit our Concord water.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)