Jefferies' England Quotes

“The sun has disappeared, and the light there still is, is left in the atmosphere enclosed by the gloomy mist as pools are left by the receding tide. Through the sand the water slips, and through the mist the light glides away.
(Haunts of the Lapwing: I. Winter)”
― Richard Jefferies, Jefferies' England: Nature Essays by Richard Jefferies

“Straight, as if sawn down from turf to beach, the cliff shuts off the human world, for the sea knows no time and no era; you cannot tell what century it is from the face of the sea.
(The Breeze on Beachy Head)”
― Richard Jefferies, Jefferies' England: Nature Essays by Richard Jefferies

“Time changes the places that knew us, and if we go back after years, still even then it is not the same spot; the gate swings differently, new thatch has been put on the old gables, the road has been widened, and the sward the driven sheep lingered on has gone.
(Wild Flowers)”
― Richard Jefferies, Jefferies' England: Nature Essays by Richard Jefferies

“Or you might set the morning star for it burns and burns and glitters in the winter dawn, and throws forth beam like those of metal consumed by oxygen.
(Out of Doors in February)”
― Richard Jefferies, Jefferies' England: Nature Essays by Richard Jefferies