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Richard Jeffries Quotes


An English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels.
John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. For all that, these show a remarkable diversity, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), an early work of science fiction. For much of his adult life, he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883).

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Let us labor to make the heart grow larger as we become older as spreading oak gives more shelter.

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When I look in the glass I see that every line in my face means pessimism but in spite of my face - that is my experience - I remain an optimist.