“We live, all of us, in sprung rhythm. Even in cities, folk stir without knowing it to the surge in the blood that is the surge and urgency of season. In being born, we have taken seisin of the natural… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“In East Sussex, let us say, an old farm sleeps in sun-dapple, its oast-house with its cowls echoing the distant steeple of SS Andrew… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“Arcady, like Death its denizen with us, is all around us, if we – stalled beasts who want to be set forth – but… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“At all times and in all places, in season and out of season, time is now and England, place is now and England; past… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“Sixty-five years ago [written 2009], in a brief lull between storms in a remarkably stormy June, even by the standards of Channel weather, the… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“The American share of the crisis began with grossly improper mortgages provided to wholly unqualified borrowers, all directly caused and encouraged by government distortion… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“There are two primary strains in the Conservative Party: grocers, and grandees. … By ‘grandees’ and ‘grocers’, I am not referring to social class… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“… the countryside and the village are symbols of stability and security, of order. Yet they are also, as I have noted, liminal spaces,… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“When does the year begin? Well: that rather depends: on who you are, and where. The Church kalendar – like the academic, which is… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“Note, please, that I condemn only junk science (as does Mr Delingpole): this is in fact a measure of my, and his, regard for… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“The Hitler War was my grandfather’s war; my father’s war – his and Uncle George’s – was Korea, which may have been just as… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“Or awa’ upon Islay, in January, the wind was honed to a cutting edge across the queer flatness of Loch Gorm and the strand… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“We live, all of us, in sprung rhythm. Even in cities, folk stir without knowing it to the surge in the blood that is… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image