The Nature Book Quotes

“Soon the unvarying emptiness of the country was full of music, and part of it came from the great, bright stars swinging so low above the prairie. The stars were singing. The whisper of the sweeping wheat was swallowed up in their song, as if glutted with sound.”
― Tom Comitta, The Nature Book

“Peering between the stars in the outer darkness, among many millions of other faint stars, there were stars of sweetness—an eighth-magnitude star, a nineteenth-magnitude star—and nascent new stars.

Something special in the wind, the crickets and the birds, the stars swimming in schools through the night sky. Something special at the end of summer, a grand finale …”
― Tom Comitta, The Nature Book

“When the days were longer, when summer afternoons were spacious, laughter was on the earth.”
― Tom Comitta, The Nature Book

“Directly overhead, along the nighted axis, the hologram sky glittered with fanciful constellations suggesting playing cards, the faces of dice, a top hat, a martini glass.”
― Tom Comitta, The Nature Book