Richard Jefferies

The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul.

I desire a greatness of soul, an irradiance of mind, a deeper insight, a broader hope.

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.