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Quotes from The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography — Richard Jefferies

1848–1887 England

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So long as men firmly believe that everything is fixed for them, so long is progress impossible.

The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography (1883)

[A] watch keeping correct time is no guarantee that the bearer shall not suffer pain. The owner of the watch may be soulless, without mind-fire, a mere creature. No benefit to the heart or to the body accrues from the most accurate mechanism.

The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography (1883)

There is nothing human in the whole round of nature. All nature, all the universe that we can see, is absolutely indifferent to us, and except to us human life is of no more value than grass. If the entire human race perished at this hour, what difference would it make to the earth? What would the earth care? As much as for the extinct dodo, or for the fate of the elephant now going.

The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography (1883)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Jefferies (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.