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Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter CXXXVIn context
- Nature
- Time
It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XIXIn context
- Nature
Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIIn context
- History
- Nature
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky⁠—seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIIIn context
- Nature
The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part I, Episode 1In context
- Nature
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part III, Episode 17 (2 of 3)In context
- Nature
There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Time Machine (1895), Chapter IIn context
- Time
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The War of the Worlds (1898), Book One: The Coming of the Martians, Chapter IIn context
- Intelligence
By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers
H. G. Wells1866–1946The War of the Worlds (1898), Book Two: The Earth under the Martians, Chapter VIIIIn context
- Life & Death
- Nature
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
L. M. Montgomery1874–1942Anne of Green Gables (1908), Chapter XVIIn context
- Happiness
- Nature
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
Kenneth Grahame1859–1932The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter IIn context
- Nature
The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.
Kate Chopin1850–1904The Awakening (1899), Chapter VIIn context
- Nature
Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book VI: The Russian Monk, Chapter IIIIn context
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ the world!
Crack nature’s moulds, all germens spill at once,
That make ingrateful man!
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act III, Scene II, spoken by LearIn context
- Anger
- Nature
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act II, Scene I, spoken by OberonIn context
- Nature