A man and what he loves and builds have but a day and then disappear; nature cares not—and renews the annual round untired. It is the old law, sad but not bitter. Only when man destroys the life and beauty of nature, there is the outrage.


Grey of Fallodon (1937), bk. I, ch. 3

G. M. Trevelyan Quotes

A man and what he loves and builds have but a day and then disappear; nature cares not—and renews the annual round untired. It is the old law, sad...

A man and what he loves and builds have but a day and then disappear; nature cares not—and renews the annual round untired. It is the old law, sad...

A man and what he loves and builds have but a day and then disappear; nature cares not—and renews the annual round untired. It is the old law, sad...

A man and what he loves and builds have but a day and then disappear; nature cares not—and renews the annual round untired. It is the old law, sad...