“A ley line is what might be called a field of force, a trail of telluric energy. There are hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, all over Britain, and they've been around since the Stone Age.” MightAgeEnergyForceLinesFieldsStonesBritainTrailsStone Age Author:Stephen R. Lawhead
“Just as ripples radiate from the place where a stone is thrown into a pool of water, our sometime-unconscious thoughts, feelings, emotions, and beliefs create the “disturbances” in the field that become the blueprints for our lives.” FeelingsBeliefWaterEmotionOur LivesFieldsStonesUnconsciousThrownPoolRippleDisturbanceBlueprintsUnconscious Thoughts Author:Gregg Braden
“A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour, Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile, Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade. Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws, No more sits listening by his den, but steals Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field, And crops its juicy-blossoms.” LeftHoursSleepSilenceDoorsDogFieldsListeningStonesSafetyStealingGrayShadeBitesReignCropsDwellingSteersSabbathLaborersPawsDensJuicyClovers Author:William C. Bryant
“Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart -I tried that, but it skimmed,flat, over the frozen lake.She came from a long, long way,but I saw her at last, walking,my daughter, my girl, across the fields,In bare feet, bringing all spring's flowersto her mother's house. I swearthe air softened and warmed as she moved,the blue sky smiling, none too soon,with the small shy mouth of a new moon.” WayHeartLongHardEarthLastsMotherGirlHouseBreakSawsAirFeetSkyFieldsBrokenColdWalkingMoonSpringMouthsDaughterToughStonesBlueMovedWinterIceSatLakesShyFlatsMy DaughterFrozenLong WayBlue SkyMy GirlNew MoonGraniteBare FeetFrozen Lake Author:Carol Ann Duffy
“The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt him; not of Satan, because he cannot hurt him; not of afflictions, because he knows they come from a loving God, and end in his good; not of the creatures, since "the very stones in the field are in league with Him;" not of himself, since his conscience is at peace.” KnowsMenEndsHurtFieldsCreaturesConscienceStonesLeagueSatanAfflictionGodlyLoving GodGodlinessGodly Man Author:Joseph Hall
“When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.” FirstsWarEndsHomeTogetherMotherPiecesDoorsFieldsPicksDaughterStonesDestroyedMother And DaughterHaul Author:Zainab Salbi
“It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.” FieldsBecomingIdealsStonesUselessEdificeEfforts WastedUseless Life Author:Jose Rizal
“Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT? THE DEATH OF RATS WOULD RIDE SOME KIND OF DOG. Picture more fields, a great horizon-spanning network of fields, rolling in gentle waves... DON'T ASK ME I DON'T KNOW. SOME KIND OF TERRIER, MAYBE. ...fields of corn, alive, whispering in the breeze... RIGHT, AND THE DEATH OF FLEAS CAN RIDE IT TOO. THAT WAY YOU KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE. ...awaiting the clockwork of the seasons. METAPHORICALLY.” KnowsWayKindTwoAsksDarkAliveHeardDogFiguresFieldsBirdStonesCatSeasonsWaveAsk MeGentleTallHorizonRidingRollingRatsBreezeCornWhisperingFleasClockworkTerriersTwo Birds Author:Terry Pratchett
“The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS” HeartWarDreamNatureMemoriesLandFieldsBattleAngelRiversStonesUnionsGravesCivil WarTouchedPatriotismBroadsPatriotChordsMysticStretchingAmerican Civil WarChorusInaugurationInaugural AddressInaugural SpeechUs Civil WarAngels On Earth Book:The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865 Source: The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865
“I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must tell you now, I believe this attack will fail. No 15,000 men ever made could take that ridge. It's a distance of more than a mile, over open ground. When the men come out of the trees, they will be under fire from Yankee artillery from all over the field. And those are Hancock's boys! And now, they have the stone wall like we did at Fredericksburg.” KnowsMenBelieveMadeI BelieveBoysFireFailingTreeFieldsWallVictoryBattleStonesDistanceSoldierMilesYankeesInitialsConfederateArtilleryRidgesLieutenantsGettysburgStone Walls Author:Michael Shaara
“Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.” WantHumansMatterAsksConsciousnessForeverFieldsStonesExhausted Book:Point Omega Source: Point Omega
“Goodbye Darcy, goodbye Jean, goodbye stone cottage, scratchy towels, fields of wildflowers; good bye gorgeous Peak District ... OK English People, for your own good, get off the roads, here we come!” PeopleFieldsStonesGoodbyeGorgeousByeGood ByeCottagesTowelsWildflowersDarcy Author:Susan Branch
“Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.” SoulLightAnimalCryFieldsMountainBirdStonesPlantWelcomeStreams Author:Paulo Coelho
“How peacefully he sleep! Yet may his ever-questing spirit, freed at length from all the frettings of this little world, Wander at will among the uncharted stars. Fairfield his name. Perchance celestial fields disclosing long sought secrets of the past Spread 'neath his enraptured gaze And beasts and men that to his earthly sight were merely bits of stone shall live again to gladden those eager eyes. o let us picture him-enthusiast-scientist-friend- Seeker of truth and light through all eternity!” MenWorldLifeMayLittlesLongLightEyePastScienceSpiritNamesStarsBitsSleepSecretFieldsStonesScientistEternitySightSpreadWanderBeastLengthSeekersCelestialUnchartedFretting Author:Charles R. Knight