"So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through.. Colour gives way to form. every branch distinct, in a delicate tracery against the sky.. new vistas obscured all Summer by leafage, now open up."

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Source : "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. December Chapter, 1986.

Flora Thompson

#Summer Quotes #Sky Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.”
“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
“Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.”

Source : The Spectator, pp. 223-224, February 17, 1984.
“The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction.”
“When you do try to picture the boys who do ask you out, they're absolutely featureless, like old carvings eroded by centuries of rain and wind.”
“A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.”

Source : Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.13, Sheridan House, Inc.
“The music business is a place where the artists are all treated like we're working for the people who are working for us. That can obviously be exaggerated when you're a female.”
“Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.”

Source : John Terraine (1980). “The smoke and the fire: myths and anti-myths of war, 1861-1945”, Sidgwick & Jackson

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