Quote#Nature
The great inviolate place had an ancient permanence which the sea…
Quote byThomas Hardy · 1840–1928
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Return of the Native (1878), Bk. I, ch. 1.
English (original)
The great inviolate place had an ancient permanence which the sea cannot claim. Who can say of a particular sea that it is old? Distilled by the sun, kneaded by the moon, it is renewed in a year, in a day, or in an hour. The sea changed, the fields changed, the rivers, the villages, and the people changed, yet Egdon remained.
— Thomas Hardy
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