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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.

– Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies

The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt – that is, untoward and often involuntary actions – pulls generation after generation heavily as lead down, down, down.

– Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies

It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.

– Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies

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.

– Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies

A woman can see a woman so clearly – faluts, excellences, details – all are so clear to her.

– Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies

Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village wretches, but men in good position, well-to-do sycophants.

– Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies

The labourer’s muscle is that of a cart-horse, his motions lumbering and slow.

– Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies

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

– Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies

Almost every labourer has his Sunday suit, very often really good clothes, sometimes glossy black, with the regulation ‘chimney pot’. His unfortunate walk betrays him, dress how he will.

– Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies

Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.

– Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies

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.

– Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies

Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.

– Richard Jefferies

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