Richard Jefferies quotes

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness. (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. View quote
Richard Jefferies
It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds. View quote
Richard Jefferies
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 in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed. View quote
Richard Jefferies
The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work. View quote
Richard Jefferies