Richard Jefferies Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.”

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

“Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.”

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

“The heart looks into space to be away from earth.”

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

“The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an obscure corner. There is no individuality about modern guns. One is exactly like another.”

“To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the boldest of us have sometimes felt an unaccountable creeping in the thick darkness.”

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

“Look at another person while living; the soul is not visible, only the body which it animates. Therefore, merely because after death the soul is not visible is no demonstration that it does not still live.”