The Stones of Green Knowe Quotes

“How could people manage without a forest? It was essential as water.”
― L.M. Boston, The Stones of Green Knowe

“The nightingale’s song was as old as the coming of summer after winter. He did not doubt it had started with the creation of the world. He did not need to fear things for being old. It was rather a reason for loving them that they had been there so comfortingly long, like hills.”
― L.M. Boston, The Stones of Green Knowe

“But the grandmother too was proud of her birth, and she loved her native land as a conqueror never could.”
― L.M. Boston, The Stones of Green Knowe