The whole time in the open air, resting at mid-day, under the elms with the ripple of heat flowing through the shadow; at midnight between the ripe corn and the hawthorn hedge on the white wild camomile and the poppy pale in the duskiness, with face upturned to the thoughtful heaven.


The Open Air, Goldenbrown (p. 26)

Richard Jefferies Quotes

The whole time in the open air, resting at mid-day, under the elms with the ripple of heat flowing through the shadow; at midnight between the ripe...

The whole time in the open air, resting at mid-day, under the elms with the ripple of heat flowing through the shadow; at midnight between the ripe...

The whole time in the open air, resting at mid-day, under the elms with the ripple of heat flowing through the shadow; at midnight between the ripe...

The whole time in the open air, resting at mid-day, under the elms with the ripple of heat flowing through the shadow; at midnight between the ripe...