"A few melancholy birds were pipping and..." - Quote by J R R Tolkien
A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell
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“It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.”
“And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose the latter.”
“Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden! Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas!”
More on Nature
“I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”
“We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.”
“Every natural action is graceful.”