And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 25:27.

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms103:15^16.

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel: they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, preciselyas men would suffer†it is thoughtless to condem them, or laugh at them, if they seek to domorethancustomhas pronounced necessary for their sex.

-Bronte«  , Charlotte
  Jane Eyre, ch.12.

  If I should die, thinkonly this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich dust a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'The Soldier'.

He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, stanza 23.

In love's field was never found A nobler weapon than a wound.

-Crashaw, Richard
'The Flaming Heart Upon the Book and Picture of Saint Teresa', collectedin Carmen Deo Nostro (publishedposthumously,1652).

They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they who survived fought and drank as of yore, But the land of their heart's hope they never saw more, For in far, foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

-Davis,Thomas Osborne
  The Spirit of the Nation,'The Battle-Eve of the Brigade'.

   L'homme est ne¤   pour la socie¤  te¤  ; se¤  parez-le, isolez-le, ses ide¤  es se de¤  suniront, son caracte'  re se tournera, mille affections ridicules s'e¤  le'  veront dans son coeur; des 274 pense¤  es extravagantes germeront dans son esprit, comme les ronces dans une terre sauvage. Man is born to live in society: separate him, isolate him, and his ideas disintegrate, his character changes, a thousand ridiculous affectations rise up in his heart; extreme thoughts take hold in his mind, like the brambles in a wild field.

-Diderot, Denis
  La Religieuse.

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of the war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

-Heller,Joseph
  Milo Minderbinder. Catch-22, ch.24.

Souls of Poets dead and gone What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?

-Keats,John
  'Lines on the Mermaid Tavern'.

We know the war prepared On every peaceful home, We know the hells declared For such as serve not Rome, The terror, threats and dread In market, hearth and field: We know when all is said We perish if we yield.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'Ulster'.

The love of field and coppice, Of green and shaded lanes, Of ordered woods and gardens Mackellar whiteman likeshimor not.If thewhiteman says he does, he is instantlyöand usually quite rightlyömistrusted. Is running in your veins. Strong love of grey-blue distance Brown streams and soft, dim skiesöI know but cannot share it, My love is otherwise. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terrorö The wide brown land for me!

-Mackellar, (Isobel Marion) Dorothea
England, Half English, 'A Short Guide for  Jumbles'. 1905  'Core of My Heart', first published in the London Spectator. Collected as'My Country' in The Closed Door, and Other Verses (1911).

[Jeremy] Bentham held no post at the mercy of bankers and tripe sellers; he was a man of independent means, a lawyer and politician and a heretic in general practice. It is impossible to imagine such a man occupying a chair at Harvard or Princeton.Hehad a hand intoomany pies; he was too rebellious and contumacious; he had too little respect for authority, either academic or worldly. Moreover, his mind was too wide for a professor; he Mencken could never remain safely in a groove; the whole field of social organization invited his inquiries and experiments.

-Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)
  'The Dismal Science', in The Smart Set,  Jun.

But what care I? It's the game that calls meö Simply to be on the field of play; How can it matter what fate befalls me, With ten good fellows and one good day!

-Milne, A(lan) A(lexander)
Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

   What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield.

-Milton,John
  Satan addressing the fallen angels. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.1, l.105^8.

Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?

-Mondrian, Piet
Quoted in F Elgar Mondrian (1968).

They do you a decent death in the hunting field.

-Mortimer, SirJohn Clifford
  Paradise Postponed, ch.18.

There'll always be an England While there's a country lane, Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.

-Parker, Ross and Charles, Hugh
  Song.

Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.

-Pasteur, Louis
Some Reflections on Science in France, pt.1.

It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!'

-Powys,John Cowper
Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).