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.

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works for the sake of adding beauty and importance to life, when every river is clean and bright, and the proud words 'I serve' are in everyone's heart and purpose. Then my country will be good enough for me.

Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

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

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

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