Quote Tag

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.