Sunken Meadow

Famous quotes containing the words sunken and/or meadow:

    “Turn your eyes to the immoderate past,
    Turn to the inscrutable infantry rising
    Demons out of the earth—they will not last.
    Stonewall, Stonewall, and the sunken fields of hemp,
    Shiloh, Antietam, Malvern Hill, Bull Run.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influence which flowers exert, no less upon the ditcher in the meadow than the lady in the bower. When I walk in the woods, I am reminded that a wise purveyor has been there before me; my most delicate experience is typified there.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)