Hope Leslie Volume 1 Quotes

“Home can never be transferred; never repeated in the experience of an individual. The place consecrated by parental love, by the innocence and sports of childhood, by the first acquaintance with nature; by the linking of the heart to the visible creation, is the only home. There there is a living and breathing spirit infused into nature: every familiar object has a history—the trees have tongues, and the very air is vocal. There the vesture of decay doth not close in and control the noble functions of the soul. It sees and hears and enjoys without the ministry of gross material substance.”
― Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie, or Early Times in the Massachusetts, Vol. 1 of 2

“Home can never be transferred; never repeated in the experience of
an individual. The place consecrated by parental love, by the innocence and sports of childhood, by the first
acquaintance with nature; by the linking of the heart to the visible creation, is the only home. There there is a
living and breathing spirit infused into nature: every familiar object has a history—the trees have tongues, and the
very air is vocal. There the vesture of decay doth not close in and control the noble functions of the soul. It sees
and hears and enjoys without the ministry of gross material substance.”
― Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie, or Early Times in the Massachusetts, Vol. 1 of 2