Field And Hedgerow By Richard Jefferies




























































































 -  If by good fortune
you can find a spot where you cannot see a steeple or a church tower,
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If By Good Fortune You Can Find A Spot Where You Cannot See A Steeple Or A Church Tower, Where You Can See Only Fields And Woods, You Will Find It So Much More Beautiful, For Nature Has Made It Of Its Kind Perfect.

The dim sea is always so beautiful a view because it is not disfigured by these buildings.

In the ships men live; in the houses among the trees they live; these steeples and towers are empty, and no spirit can dwell in that which is out of proportion. Scarcely any one can paint a picture of the country without sticking in one of these repellent structures. The oast-houses, whose red cones are so plentiful in Kent and Sussex, have quite a different effect; they have some colour, and by a curious felicity the builders have hit upon a good proportion, so that the shape is pleasant; these, too, have some use in the world.

Westward the sun was going down over the sea, and a wild west wind, which the glow of the sun as it touched the waves seemed to heat into fury, brought up the distant sound of the billows from the beach. A line of dark Spanish oaks from which the sharp pointed acorns were dropping, darkest green oaks, shut out the shore. A thousand starlings were flung up into the air out of these oaks, as if an impatient hand had cast them into the sky; then down they fell again, with a ceaseless whistling and clucking; up they went and down they came, lost in the deep green foliage as if they had dropped in the sea.

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