Ask me to marry you." "Will you marry me?" "No.

But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with it must be purposive, industrious, always seeking greater knowledge.

There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.