'So we will’, said Bevis .. ‘we will find a new sea where no one has ever been before. Look! there it  is, is it not wonderful?' Bevis: The Story of a Boy.
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If we had never before looked upon the earth, but suddenly came to it man or woman grown, set down in the midst of a summer mead, would it not seem to us a radiant vision?  The hues, the shapes, the song and life of birds, above all the sunlight, the breath of heaven, resting on it; the mind would be filled with its glory unable to grasp it, hardly believing that such things could be mere matter ... too beautiful to be long watched lest it should fade away.‘Wild Flowers’, The Open Air.
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The Mulberry tree, standing in the back garden of the Museum, was the inspiration for a poem.