“Don't stop. Keep right on going. Hitch up your trailer and go to Canada or down to Old Mexico. Head for Europe if you can afford it, or go to Mardi Gras. Go someplace you've heard about, where you can fish or hunt or collect rocks or just look up at the sky. Find out what's at the end of some country road. Go see what's over the next hill, and the one after that, and the one after that.” IfsLooksEndsCountryNextHeardSkyRocksEuropeFishesHillsLook UpCanadaMexicoHuntsTrailersMardi GrasCountry Roads Author:Wally Byam
“Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.” BookCountryRunningWaterLinesBreakSeaFeetLandRocksProudShadowGreenWingsWaveFlightHillsGiantsShorePalePausesGlancesEaglesFlingCompact Book:The Herries Chronicles Source: The Herries Chronicles
“When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one not only ceases to wonder that order and religion are maintained, but one is astonished that any such thing as disaffection or irreligion should prevail.” ShouldLooksCountryOrderWonderRoundsCeaseHillsMultitudesSpiresIrreligion Author:William Cobbett
“A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill” IfsCountrySometimesRevolutionHillsHabitual Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
“In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.” PeopleCountryLastsExpressionCivilizationStealingHillsVigorousCrude Author:Robert E. Howard