“Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.” HandsSeemsForeverPromiseMeetingsPartingArrivingVanishingDeparting Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays
“Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.” ThinkingMenLongHandsSeemsNaturalTreeJourneyFeetRocksLandscapeFeatures Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays
“Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.” NeedsHandsRomanceEnemyModernSeriousMinistersFancySympatheticIrresistibleLightersModern ScienceResourcefulHelpers Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays
