“It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.”
Quotes by Richard Jefferies
“The soul throbs like the sea for a larger life. No thought which I have ever had has satisfied my soul.”
“Let us get of these indoor narrow modern days, whose twelve hours somehow have become shortened, into the sunlight and the pure wind. A something that the ancients thought divine can be found and felt there still.”
Richard JefferiesJohn Richard Jefferies was an English nature writer whose vivid depictions of rural life and the natural world left a lasting impact on literature. Growing up on a small farm in Wiltshire, his early e...