The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
Ellen GlasgowNo idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Ellen GlasgowIn the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.
Ellen Glasgow. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
Ellen Glasgow