Quote for the day – December 14

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Henry Salt, Richard Jefferies

“So, too, of modern doctrines and discoveries – they may add to the convenience, but not the real happiness of the race. The improvement of mechanism, the piling up of fortunes, the building of cities, even the teachings of science, are of no avail towards hastening the perfection of the human soul or the human body; wonderful as they are, they are for the most part valueless”.

Henry Salt, Richard Jefferies: His Life and His Ideals

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Quote for the day – October 18

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Henry Salt

“This ‘Return to Nature’ is a theme which in one form or another, notably in the various traditions of a past Golden Age, has from time immemorial exercised a powerful attraction on the minds of poets and idealists”.

Henry Salt, Richard Jefferies: His Life and His Ideals

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Quote for the day – August 18

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Henry Salt

“To seek the human ideal as reflected in the face of Nature – here is the true and only secret of education”.

Henry Salt, Richard Jefferies: His Life and His Ideals

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Quote for the day – July 31

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Henry Salt

“We must discard the present philosophy of work as a good in itself, in the knowledge that centuries of labour have but resulted in the demoralisation of the few and the degradation of the many”.

Henry Salt, Richard Jefferies: His Life and His Ideals

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Quote for the day – June 30

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Henry Salt, Richard Jefferies

“The return to nature is an abandonment not of the benefits but of the evils of the civilised state, a reversion not to the vices but to the virtues of wild natural life”.

Henry S. Salt, Richard Jefferies: His Life and His Ideals

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Quote for the day – April 15

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Henry Salt, Richard Jefferies

“All life, whether social or individual, that is permanently divorced from communion with the vitalising influences of free air and sunshine, will be a stunted and diseased life; and to the long disuse and degradation of natural instinct, until artificiality has become dominant in every phase of our existence, must be attributed the present numerous evils of civilised mankind”.

Henry Salt, Richard Jefferies: His Life and His Ideals

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