I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
“Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.”
“Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.”