The Saunterer

Vera Brittain on how wild nature is a restorative

    A brief escape to nature is all it takes to feel as we were made to feel. Vera Brittain:

    Late this afternoon there was one of the loveliest skies I have ever seen—warm & glowing in the west, with tiny rosy clouds floating above the horizon, while in the east was a heavy black cloud, & just below it a long streak of the purest silvery blue, against which the tall elm trees on the sky-line stood up dark. To raise one’s eyes heavenward from the cold & gloomy lane was like gazing out of earth into Paradise.

    (Quoted from page 281 of The Life of the Creative Spirit, by H. Charles Romesburg. Xlibris, 2001.)
    For a brief biography of Vera Brittain, click here. For images of or relating to Vera Brittain, click here.

E. F. Schumacher on what’s necessary to save the earth

    It takes the kind of people that don’t exist in sufficient numbers:

    Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

    (Quoted from page 46 of Green Movement, by Chris Eboch. ABDO Publishing Co., 2014.)
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