“And peasants’ thoughts are not such dead and commonplace things that I, who have learnt practically all I know from them, can afford to ignore them now.”

Acknowledging rural people as profound sources of knowledge and imaginative insight · Mearing Stones, The Peasant in Literature

• Memory
• Truth

“And mixed up with the twilight and silence is a profound melancholy that rises out of the landscape itself, or is read into it by the greyness of one’s own experience.”

Recognising how landscape and personal emotion can become impossible to separate · Mearing Stones, Twilight and Silence

• Despair
• Memory
• Nature