"The heart looks into space to be away…" — Richard Jefferies

"The heart looks into space to be away from earth."

— Richard Jefferies

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40 Quotes by Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business…
I must stay under the old tree in the midst of the long grass, the luxury of the leaves, and…
O beautiful human life! Tears come to my eyes as I think of it. So beautiful, so inexpressibly beautiful! The…
It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always…
An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the…
I desire a greatness of soul, an irradiance of mind, a deeper insight, a broader hope.
Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.
That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.
I believe in the human form; let me find something, some method, by which that form may achieve the utmost…
Look at another person while living; the soul is not visible, only the body which it animates. Therefore, merely because…
Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.
To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial…

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More Earth Quotes

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann

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