Margaret Barber Quotes

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Nature is full for us of seeming inconsistencies and glad surprises.

Margaret Barber
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Margaret Barber
What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For those who seek the tale of other worlds his magic is silent; but earth-travail under his wand becomes instinct with rhythmic song to an accompaniment of the elements, and the blare and crash of the bottomless pit itself.

Margaret Barber
I love the sea with its impenetrable fathoms, its wash and undertow, and rasp of shingle sucked anew.

Margaret Barber
We can never be too Pagan when we are truly Christian, and the old myths are eternal truths held fast in the Church's net.

Margaret Barber
Man—vir, woman—femina, go to make up the man—homo. There can be no comparison, no rivalry between them; they are the complement of each other, and a little child shall lead them.

Margaret Barber
I heard my little brothers who move by night rustling in grass and tree. A hedgehog crossed my path with a dull squeak, the bats shrilled high to the stars, a white owl swept past me crying his hunting note, a beetle boomed suddenly in my face; and above and through it all the nightingales sang — and sang!

Margaret Barber
Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision.

Margaret Barber
There is something inexpressibly beautiful in the unused day, something beautiful in the fact that it is still untouched, unsoiled; and town and country share alike in this loveliness.

Margaret Barber
There are, I take it, two master-keys to the secrets of the universe, viewed sub specie aternitatis, the Incarnation of God, and the Personality of Man.

Margaret Barber