Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

Better to illuminate than merely to shine..

Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity..

The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love..

The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.].

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art..

Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception..

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works..

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequen….

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future..

Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activ….

The wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God..

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit..

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be count….

...music is the living God in our bosoms..

Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it..

Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness..

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature..

There is no art without contemplation..

Let your home be you mast and not your anchor..