Author: Richard Jefferies

Quotes

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.

- Richard Jefferies

Grief falls upon human beings as the rain, not selecting good or evil, visiting the innocent, condemning those who have done no wrong.

Grief falls upon human beings as the rain, not selecting good or evil, visiting the innocent, condemning those who have done no wrong.

- Richard Jefferies

A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.

A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.

- Richard Jefferies

Is there anything so delicious as the first exploration of a great library - alone - unwatched?

Is there anything so delicious as the first exploration of a great library - alone - unwatched?

- Richard Jefferies

I believe in the human form; let me find something, some method, by which that form may achieve the utmost beauty.

I believe in the human form; let me find something, some method, by which that form may achieve the utmost beauty.

- Richard Jefferies

The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul.

The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul.

- Richard Jefferies

Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.

Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.

- Richard Jefferies

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

- Richard Jefferies

That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.

That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.

- Richard Jefferies

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