"Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped- always somebody else's horizons! O… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know. Here, where… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings. — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“What the Boy chiefly dabbled in was natural history and fairy tales, and he just took them as they came, in a sandwichy sort… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“The dragon is a more enduring animal than the pterodactyl. I have never yet met anyone who really believed in a pterodactyl; but every… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit.” — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“Supper was finished at last, and each animal felt that his skin was now as tight as was decently safe.” — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having. — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“In silence they landed, and pushed through the blossom and scented herbage and undergrowth that led up to the level ground, till they stood… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
