H. G. Wells Quotes About Hills

Quotes about: Hills

• I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.

  H. G. Wells

  Art, Attitude, Taken

  H. G. Wells (2016). “Experiment in Autobiography - Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (since 1866)”, p.47, Read Books Ltd

• And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens.

  H. G. Wells

  Cities, Wind, Tree

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.843, Delphi Classics

• London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.

  H. G. Wells

  Home, London, Hills

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.12773, Delphi Classics

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