I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.
It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests.... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.
If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a naturaland vital thing.
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