Richard Jefferies Quotes

″...anything is sweeter than the work you ought to do...”

“But he never noticed the heat, nor the wind, nor his wet feet, nor his clayey hands. He had done it- he was quite lost in his raft.”

“You may be sure there are mummies there, and very likely magic writings in their hands. I wish we could get a magic writing. Then we could do anything, and we could know all the secrets.”

“If there was a path it was not proper to follow it, nor ought you to know your way; you ought to find it by sign.”

“Bevis put himself so into it, that he did it all, he bribed the porter, he played the harp, and drew the sword; these were no words to him, it was a living picture in which he himself acted.”

“It is most extraordinary to find a new sea.”

″...nothing is anything to us.”