The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury

There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children’s playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree.
But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.

Your insanity is beautifully complete!

It’s not every day you get a second chance.

... dead cities have a way of making you want to whisper, to watch the sun go down.

... nighttime was the time of change and affliction.

She kept looking ahead to see what was there, and, not being able to see it clearly enough, she looked backward toward her husband, and through his eyes, reflected then, she saw what was ahead; and since he added part of himself to this reflection, a determined firmness, her face relaxed and she accepted it and she turned back, knowing suddenly what to look for.

His eyes glowed with a dark, quiet look of loneliness.

Can one man be right, while all the world thinks they are right?

We’re kids in rompers, shouting with our play rockets and atoms, loud and alive.

You could see her thoughts swimming around in her eyes, like fish — some bright, some dark, some fast, quick, some slow and easy.

It’s a world and we get a second chance.
Nobody told us why.
But then nobody told us why we were on Earth, either.
That other Earth, I mean.
The one you came from.
How do we know there wasn’t another before that one?

Life was now good and needed no arguments.

What does it matter who is Past or Future, if we are both alive, for what follows will follow, tomorrow or in ten thousand years.

I feel as if I’d been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat.
I’m soaked to the skin with emotion.

Anybody with any sense wanted to get away from Earth.

The animal does not question life. It lives.
Its very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life.