I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.
Freya StarkTo feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
Freya StarkWhatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.
Freya StarkAbsence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
Freya Stark