"Nature does require her times of preservation...." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age.”

“When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”

“Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.”

“Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.”

“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.”

“Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.”

“In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ... we can no longer hope to save everything, but ... we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible.”

“My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.”

“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”