JOY AND SORROW

vital way, so as to give us a vivid sense of a new spiritual force and personality In the best work the style is found and hidden in the matter.”    

JOHN BURROUGHS –“The difference between a precious stone and a common stone is not an essential difference — not a difference of substance — but of arrangement of the particles — the crystallisation. In substance, the charcoal and the diamond are one, but in form and effect, how widely they differ! The pearl contains nothing that is not found in the coarsest oyster-shell. Two men have the same thoughts; they use about the same words in expressing them; yet with one the product is real literature, with the other it is platitude. The difference is all in presentation; a finer and more compendious process has gone on in the one ease than in the other. The elements are better fused and knitted together; they are in some way heightened and intensified. Is not here a clue to what we mean by style? 

JOHN BURROUGHS –“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”   

JOHN BURROUGHS –“To learn something new; take the path you took yesterday.”         

JOHN CAGE –“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”  

JOHN CARLISLE –“Help us to harness the wind, the water, the sun, and all the ready and renewable sources of power. Teach us to conserve, preserve, use wisely the blessed treasures of our wealth-stored earth. Help us to share your bounty, not waste it, or pervert it into peril for our children or our neighbours in other

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