All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability; work with the body, fatigue - and peace of mind.

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.