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“The love of nature is a passion for those in whom it once lodges. It can never be quenched. It cannot change. It is a furious, burning, physical greed, as well as a state of mystical exaltation.”

Describing nature-love as both bodily hunger and spiritual elevation · Essay, The Spring of Joy, 1917

About Mary Webb

Mary Webb

25 March 1881–8 October 1927

In the rolling hills and misty valleys of Shropshire, where ancient folklore mingles with the rhythms of rural life, Mary Gladys Webb crafted some of the most evocative prose and poetry of the early twentieth century. Born on March 25, 1881, in the village of Leighton-under-the-Wrekin, and dying tragically young at…

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