“The one of him and his little sister lying beneath a blossoming apple tree, drifting toward an afternoon nap. The sun warm against their cheeks, its light picking out the grass and the leaves and clutter of blossoms above.”
Hosseini, Khaled. And the Mountains Echoed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. p. p. 346.
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“It has been noted by Hjort (1912) that the idea of a pelagic mode of life was originally associated with animal life of the ocean surface, but it applies also to the drifting and swimming life of deeper waters, since its main characteristic is its independence of the bottom.”
Sverdrup, H. U., Martin W. Johnson, and Richard Howell Fleming. The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry, and General Biology. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1942. p. 810.
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“We paddle forward, backstroke, turn,
Spinning through eddies and waves
Stairsteps of churning whitewater.
above the roar
hear the song of a Canyon Wren.
A smooth stretch, drifting and resting.
Heart it again, delicate downward song”
Snyder, Gary. "Poems: Gary Snyder." Dialectical Anthropology 11, no. 2/4 (1986): 194-202. Accessed August 2, 2021. p. 196.
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“Oh sovereign king,
Will your heart permit us
To live scattered, far from each other,
Drifting here and there,
Subject to an alien power,
Trodden upon?”
Rothenberg, Jerome. Technicians of the Sacred a Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1969. p. 236. From “The Elegy for the Great Inca Atawallpa,” (Quechua), source: “Previously unpublished versions of pre-Conquest ‘Incan’ poetry by W.S. Merwin.
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“The brow of El Capitan was decked with long snow-streamers like hair, Clouds' Rest was fairly enveloped in drifting gossamer films, and the Half Dome loomed up in the garish light like a majestic, living creature clad in the same gauzy, wind-woven drapery, while upward current smeeting att imes overhead made it smoke like a volcano. “
Muir, John. The Writings of John Muir: Sierra Edition. Vol. II. The Mountains of California. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. p. 177.
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“The voice of the fall was now low, and the grand spring and summer floods had waned to sifting, drifting gauze and thin- broidered folds of linked and arrowy lace-work.”
Muir, John. The Writings of John Muir: Sierra Edition. Vol. II. The Mountains of California. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. p. 157.
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