“There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.” ThinkingGivingHumansMeanEvilHuman NatureGreatnessWillingReadyGoodnessEarsWelcomeJealousyReportsCalumnyCalumny Is 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
“We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.” ThinkingMenLongCoursesImagineConcernMirrorsAffairMoodImagine ThatSympathetic Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays
