"Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot."
— Flora Thompson

January 1, 1970

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November Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986