“ This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness. ”
It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine, I am in it as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come, it is now. Now is eternity, now is the immortal life.
~ Richard Jefferies
The heart looks into space to be away from earth.
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.
The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.
