The Living Stones Quotes

“The Bardic robe..disguises imperfections of figure: round shoulders, bosoms of unmodish size or shape...too-insistent buttocks, knock knees and bandy legs, all are mitigated in the merciful folds of the robe...but whatever the type of robe --soutane, sari, academic gown or Bardic wrap -- its effect is often destroyed by disillusioning shoes.”
― Ithell Colquhoun, The Living Stones: Cornwall

“The Cornish language did not die a natural death; it was executed like a criminal by the oppressing Saxon power.”
― Ithell Colquhoun, The Living Stones: Cornwall

“If you are willing to live at a low enough standard there is nothing you cannot do, nowhere you cannot go.”
― Ithell Colquhoun, The Living Stones: Cornwall

“The life of a region depends ultimately on its geologic substratum, for this sets up a chain-reaction which passes, determining their character, in turn through its streams and wells, its vegetation and the animal-life that feeds on this, and finally through the type of human being attracted to live there. In a profound sense also the structure of its rocks gives rise to the psychic life of the land: granite, serpentine, slate, sandstone, limestone, chalk and the rest have each their special personality dependant on the age in which they were laid down, each being co-existent with a special phase of the earth-spirit's manifestation.”
― Ithell Colquhoun, The Living Stones: Cornwall