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Fields Quotes - Page 12

I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.40, Pearson Education

Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.

Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

John Betjeman (2005). “Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse”, p.177, A&C Black

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.

Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.266, Delphi Classics

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.

"Cheech And Chong Reunite, At Long Last". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 28, 2010.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

W.G. Sebald (2014). “Austerlitz”, p.276, Vintage Canada