"They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by. They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered."

-- Enid Blyton

#Beautiful Quotes #Song Quotes #Night Quotes

“The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.”
“To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.”

Source : Ilka Chase (1961). “The Carthaginian Rose”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
“Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.”

Source : P. G. Wodehouse, Donald R. Bensen (1985). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.”
“There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.”

Source : Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.12, Bantam
“These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.”
“Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.”
“Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.”

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