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But it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky;
and the air smells now, as if it blew from a far-away
meadow; they have been making hay somewhere under
the slopes of the Andes, Starbuck, and the mowers
are sleeping among the new-mown hay. Sleeping?
Aye, toil we how we may, we all sleep at last on the field
Sleep? Aye, and rust amid greenness…

-“Moby Dick”
Herman Melville

Lean down your ear upon the earth, and listen.
The voice of forest water in the night…
the cricketing stitch of midday in hot meadows…
The glitter of sunlight on roughened water,
the glory of the stars, the innocence of morning,
the smell of the sea in harbours,
the feathery blur and smoky buddings of young boughs…
All things belonging to the earth will never change–
the leaf, the blade, the flower…

-“You Can’t Go Home Again
Thomas Wolfe

It was a clear steel-blue day. The firmaments of air
and sea were hardly separable in that all-pervading azure;…
Hither, and thither, on high, glided the snow-white
wings of small, unspeckled birds; these were
the gentle thoughts of the feminine air; but to and fro
in the deeps, far down in the bottomless blue,
rushed mighty leviathans, sword-fish, and sharks;
and these were the strong, troubled,
murderous thinkings of the masculine sea.

-“Moby Dick”
Herman Melville

The pleasant showers and genial warmth of spring
greatly altered the aspect of the earth…
The birds sang in more cheerful notes, and the leaves
began to bud forth on the trees. Happy, happy earth!
Fit habitation for gods, which, so short a time before,
was bleak, damp, and unwholesome…
Spring advanced rapidly; the weather became fine
and the skies cloudless. It surprised me that
what before was desert and gloomy should now
bloom with the most beautiful flowers and verdure.
My senses were gratified and refreshed by
a thousand scents of delight and a thousand sights of beauty.

-“Frankenstein”
Mary Shelley

A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive
feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which
the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
The fluviatile trees next the shore are the slender
eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs
around are its overhanging brows.

-“Walden”
Henry David Thoreau

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