"I have seen landscapes . . ...." - Quote by C S Lewis

“100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.”

“A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.”

“One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.”

“I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?”

“Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.”

“Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.”

“How fair doth NatureAppear again!How bright the sunbeams!How smiles the plain!The flow'rs are burstingFrom ev'ry bough,And thousand voicesEach bush yields now.And joy and gladnessFill ev'ry breast!Oh earth!-oh sunlight!Oh rapture blest!Oh love! oh loved one!”

“Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.”

“The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.”