1 The sunrise burned red in a pure sky, the shadows on the rim of the wood-lot were darkly blue, and beyond the white and scintillating fields patches of far-off forest hung like smoke.
2 Ahead of them, a long way off, a range of hills stained by mottlings of black forest flowed away in round white curves against the sky.
3 In the rays of the late afternoon sun, every well-remembered field and forest grove was green and still, with an unearthly quiet that struck terror to Scarlett's heart.
4 She never looked out of her window at green pastures and red fields and tall tangled swamp forest that a sense of beauty did not fill her.
5 The animals had been frightened, cold, ravenous, wild as forest creatures, the strong attacking the weak, the weak waiting for the weaker to die so they could eat them.
6 "In another year, there'll be little pines all over these fields," she thought and looking toward the encircling forest she shuddered.
7 Every time she thought of that malignant black face peering at her from the shadows of the twilight forest road, she fell to trembling.
8 Now, plantation after plantation was going back to the forest, and dismal fields of broomsedge, scrub oak and runty pines had grown stealthily about silent ruins and over old cotton fields.
9 A photograph of a forest clearing: pathetic new furrows straggling among stumps, a clumsy log cabin chinked with mud and roofed with hay.
10 They drove from the natural prairie to a cleared district which twenty years ago had been forest.
11 They jogged from San Diego and La Jolla to Los Angeles, Pasadena, Riverside, through towns with bell-towered missions and orange-groves; they viewed Monterey and San Francisco and a forest of sequoias.
12 She told me that in her village at home there was an old beggar woman who went about selling herbs and roots she had dug up in the forest.
13 They had been gathered, probably, in some deep Bohemian forest.
14 There was a white hart that lived in that forest, and if anyone killed it, he would be hanged, she said.
15 The roof was so steep that the eaves were not much above the forest of tall hollyhocks, now brown and in seed.