Richard Jefferies said this quote

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.

~ Richard Jefferies

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

~ Richard Jefferies

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.

~ Richard Jefferies