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Richard Jefferies was an English writer known for his naturalist literature. His works are characterized by their detailed observations of nature and critical analyses of social issues. Despite a short writing career, Jefferies' works have had a profound influence on later writers.

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Famous Richard Jefferies Quotes

“It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.”

Change Vitality

Book:The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography

Source: The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography

“When the few leaves left on this young oak were brown, and rustled in the frosty night, the massy shoulder of Orion came heaving up through it - first one bright star, then another; then the gleaming girdle, and the less definite scabbard; then the great constellation stretched across the east. At the first sight of Orion's shoulder Bevis always felt suddenly stronger, as if a breath of the mighty hunter had come down and entered into him.”

Constellations Orion

Book:Bevis

Source: Bevis

“Time changes the places that knew us, and if we go back after years, still even then it is not the same spot; the gate swings differently, new thatch has been put on the old gables, the road has been widened, and the sward the driven sheep lingered on has gone. (Wild Flowers)”

Book:Jefferies' England: Nature Essays by Richard Jefferies

Source: Jefferies' England: Nature Essays by Richard Jefferies

“As the wind, wandering over the sea, takes from each wave an invisible portion, and brings to those on shore the ethereal essence of ocean, so the air lingering among the woods and hedges—green waves and billows—became full of fine atoms of summer.”

Book:The Pageant of Summer: A Celebration of English Summer: Nature's Beauty in Lyrical Prose

Source: The Pageant of Summer: A Celebration of English Summer: Nature's Beauty in Lyrical Prose

“Or you might set the morning star for it burns and burns and glitters in the winter dawn, and throws forth beam like those of metal consumed by oxygen. (Out of Doors in February)”

Winter Star Morning Star

Book:Jefferies' England: Nature Essays by Richard Jefferies

Source: Jefferies' England: Nature Essays by Richard Jefferies

“I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit the animal world to a share in the faculty of reason. It is the cabinet makers who construct a universe of automatons.”

World Reason Lying Universe Animal Business Share Fields Green Equality Labour Faculty Makers Constructs Cabinets Meadows Animal World

Author:Richard Jefferies

“I must stay under the old tree in the midst of the long grass, the luxury of the leaves, and the song in the very air. It seems as if I could feel all the glowing life the sunshine gives and the south winds calls into being.”

Ifs Giving Feels Long Seems Song Healing Air Tree Wind South Luxury Grass If I Could Sunshine Midst Glowing Old Trees Long Grass

Book:The Life of the Fields

Source: The Life of the Fields

“O beautiful human life! Tears come to my eyes as I think of it. So beautiful, so inexpressibly beautiful! The song should never be silent, the dance never still, the laugh should sound like water which runs forever.”

Thinking Life Should Humans Stills Eye Running Beautiful Song Sound Water Laughing Forever Tears Silent Human Life

Book:The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography

Source: The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography

About the Author

Born: November 6, 1848
Died: August 14, 1887
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 8

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