“A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again.” SoulNatureFeelingChildChildish Author:Mikhail Lermontov
“I felt somehow happy to be so high above the world - a childish feeling, I grant, but we can't help becoming children as we leave social conventions behind and come nearer to nature. All life's experience is shed from us and the soul becomes anew what it once was and will surely be again” NatureFreedomChildhood Book:A Hero of Our Time Source: A Hero of Our Time
“In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper.” HeartFeelingsNatureSimplePaperHundredStrongerNarrativeComposerVividFoldsGrandeurEcstatic Book:A Hero of Our Time Source: A Hero of Our Time