George Eliot Quotes About Wilderness

• Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

  George Eliot

  Best Friend, Friendship, Spring

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.438

• There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Lying, Cutting

  George Eliot (2016). “The Lifted Veil”, p.23, George Eliot

• Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Memories, Home

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.542, Penguin

• Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and invisible: his thought dives through the ocean, and his wishes thread the air: has he found all the pathways yet? What reaches him, stays with him, rules him: he must accept it, not knowing its pathway.

  George Eliot

  Ocean, Men, Air

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.440, 谷月社

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