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"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
- John Muir
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19 hours ago
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
- John Muir

"So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea."
- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
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2 days ago
So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.
- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Fancies are like shadows... you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things."
- L.M. Montgomery
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3 days ago
Fancies are like shadows... you cant cage them, theyre such wayward, dancing things.
- L.M. Montgomery

"But, there were other echoes, from a distance, that rumbled menacingly in the corner all through this space of time."
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
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4 days ago
But, there were other echoes, from a distance, that rumbled menacingly in the corner all through this space of time.
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

"Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate."
- Wilfred Owen
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5 days ago
Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.
 - Wilfred Owen

"I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real."
- Hunter S. Thompson , The Rum Diary
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6 days ago
I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
- Hunter S. Thompson , The Rum Diary

Welcome to today's edition of Name That Close! Who knows which close off the Royal Mile this is? ... See MoreSee Less

7 days ago
Welcome to todays edition of Name That Close! Who knows which close off the Royal Mile this is?

"To look over the South Bridge and see the Cowgate below full of crying hawkers, is to view one rank of society from another in the twinkling of an eye."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes
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1 week ago
To look over the South Bridge and see the Cowgate below full of crying hawkers, is to view one rank of society from another in the twinkling of an eye.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes

"Before I arrived in sight of it, all that remained of day was a beamless amber light along the west: but I could see every pebble on the path, and every blade of grass, by that splendid moon."
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
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1 week ago
Before I arrived in sight of it, all that remained of day was a beamless amber light along the west: but I could see every pebble on the path, and every blade of grass, by that splendid moon.
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

"There is but one reality: drink."
- Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
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1 week ago
There is but one reality: drink.
- Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

"What hath night to do with sleep?"
- John Milton, Paradise Lost
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2 weeks ago
What hath night to do with sleep?
- John Milton, Paradise Lost

A very happy Friday to you all. Just poppjng up with a very occasional message of thanks for all the likes, comments and eyes. Always welcome, never taken for granted. Thank you. ... See MoreSee Less

2 weeks ago
A very happy Friday to you all. Just poppjng up with a very occasional message of thanks for all the likes, comments and eyes. Always welcome, never taken for granted. Thank you.

"For a moment everything remained quiet."
- Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
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2 weeks ago
For a moment everything remained quiet.
- Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
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2 weeks ago
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travels sake. The great affair is to move.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."
- Albert Camus
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2 weeks ago
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
- Albert Camus
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