G. M. Trevelyan Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Truth, Lying, Passion

  "An Autobiography and Other Essays". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, 1949.

• We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Children, Earth, Spirit

• We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Running, Children, Insanity

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