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He is gone on the mountain,
He is lost to the forest,
Like a summer-dried fountain,
When our need was the sorest.
Sir Walter Scott
loss
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It appears that in a forest like this the great majority of flowers, shrubs, and grasses are confined to the banks of the rivers a ...
Henry David Thoreau
grass | rivers | forests
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See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural ho ...
Henry David Thoreau
civilization | Rome
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They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many
merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin ...
Shakespeare
countryside | happiness
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The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the win ...
Billy Wilder
forests | trees
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Rosalind. I pray you, what is't a' clock?
Orlando. You should ask me what time o' day; there's no
clock in the forest.
Shakespeare
time | love
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In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well; but
in respect that it is private, it is a very vile life.
Shakespeare
life | solitude
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We knew how to get by on what comes along, but the idea
Warning, waiting there like a forest, not emptied, beckons.
John Ashbery
knowledge | ideas | warning
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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance--nothing more. But to lose oneself in a ...
Walter Benjamin
cities and city life
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The forest waves, the morning breaks,
The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature | life
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