THE NEED FOR A NEW SIMPLICITY

'Without the pole-star of a new simplicity, it seems to me, civilization will continue by turns at deadlock or mad speed, like a machine out of control which bumps itself from one obstacle to another until it falls to pieces.'

Adrian Bell, The Cherry Tree, p.35.

BEAUTY

'I remembered what a farmer once said to me about a particularly fine horse: 'I could have stood and looked at that horse for ever.' In that pasture with it's trees in the evening sunlight, I felt I could have stood and watched that horse for ever, the zest and heavy grace of his movements.'

Adrian Bell, The Men and the Fields, p.113.