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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 40 quotes by Richard Jefferies John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. For all that, these show a remarkable diversity, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), an early... Read full biography of Richard Jefferies → 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness. 0 Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power... → 0 The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been. 0 Grief falls upon human beings as the rain, not selecting good or evil, visiting the innocent, condemning those who have done no wrong. 0 A kestrel can and does hover in the dead calm of summer days, when there is not the faintest breath of wind. He will, and does, hover in the still... → 0 When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract... → 0 Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her. 0 If every plant and flower were found in all places, the charm of locality would not exist. Everything varies, and that gives the interest. 0 An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the heart. 0 It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds. 0 Almost every labourer has his Sunday suit, very often really good clothes, sometimes glossy black, with the regulation 'chimney pot'. His... → 0 No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is... → 0 The 'crownd' is still the unit, the favourite coin of the labourers, especially the elder folk. They use the word something in the same sense... → 0 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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