Elizabeth Goudge: Quotes about the world

Elizabeth Goudge was English fiction writer. Explore interesting quotes on world.
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“In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.”

Elizabeth Goudge

Source: The Rosemary Tree

World , Spring , Tree , Singing

“Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.”

Elizabeth Goudge book The Little White Horse

Source: The Little White Horse

World , Spring , Flowers , Thinking

“There was something disruptive about Christmas and not only in the merely material way. The original Christmas had proved exceedingly disrupting to the entire world and the tremors of the original event vibrated through every life year by year.”

Elizabeth Goudge

The Scent of Water (1963), Chapter 14.2

World , Life , Way , Christmas