Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
Philosophical
“Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in. To the scientific eye all human history is a series of collective movements, destructions or migrations, like the massacre of flies in winter or the return of birds in spring.”
Eye Flower Spring
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
Philosophical
“Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour, and can be a very powerful and pleasing colour.... A grey clouded sky is indeed a canopy between us and the sun; so is a green tree, if it comes to that. But the grey umbrellas differ as much as the green in their style and shape, in their tint and tilt. One day may be grey like steel, and another grey like dove’s plumage. One may seem grey like the deathly frost, and another grey like the smoke of substantial kitchens.”
Powerful Tree Sky