Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud. - Alice Meynell

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.

To mount a hill is to lift with you something lighter and brighter than yourself or than any meaner burden. You lift the world, you raise the horizon; you give a signal for the distance to stand up.