"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and ..."
- William Morris
"The books I would like to print are the books I love to read and keep."
"It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today."
- William Morris Davis
"Let tomorrow cross its own rivers."
"How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for the landscape itself?"
"OctoberO love, turn from the changing sea and gaze,Down these grey slopes, upon the year grown old,A-dying 'mid the autumn-scented hazeThat hangeth o'er the hollow in the wold,Where the wind-bitten an..."
"O thrush your song is passing sweet But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young."
"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."