The Memory of Trees Quotes

“Magic is a door to which we have lost the key. But the door is there.”
― F.G. Cottam, The Memory of Trees

“Through the rain, on the other side of the road, he
recognized one of his students hurrying along in a parka, a watch-cap pulled down to protect his elaborately-razored hair from the rain.
One of his ridiculous students, he thought, nostalgic again, this time for the old days when higher education wasn’t a universal right imposed by the government to massage down youth unemployment figures. As recently as the eighties you had to be clever to qualify for a university place. The dullard over the road was living proof that this was no longer the case.”
― F.G. Cottam, The Memory of Trees