One day when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another. Having once got hold they never let go, but struggled and wrestled and rolled on the chips incessantly. Looking farther, I was surprised to find that the chips were covered with such combatants, that it was not a duellum, but a bellum, a war between two races of ants, the red always pitted against the black, and frequently two red ones to one black. The legions of these Myrmidons covered all the hills and vales in my wood-yard, and the ground was already strewn with the dead and dying, both red and black. It was the only battle which I have ever witnessed, the only battle-field I ever trod while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one hand, and the black imperialists on the other. On every side they were engaged in deadly combat, yet without any noise that I could hear, and human soldiers never fought so resolutely.
Henry David ThoreauTag: war black ants red field wood-pile
You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.
Criss JamiTag: avoidance football problem issues running hiding defense running-away figurative field blind-spots evading
...across the snowy field the barn light gleams - it's the loneliness of November twilight...
John GeddesTag: nature loneliness twilight field poetry-quotes barn-light
...dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field...
John GeddesTag: poetry nature reflection snow pumpkins field crows furrow-lines grid orange-abacus
Of course I want to kill you," said Skulduggery. "I want to kill most people. But then where would I be? In a field of dead people with no one to talk to.
Derek LandyTag: death humour dead dialogue field skulduggery-pleasant nobody-to-talk-to
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