Nature withdrew (Forster)
April 21st, 2006 | Published in Ecology, History, Quotes, Technology
[M]onth by month the roads smelt more strongly of petrol, and were more difficult to cross, and human beings heard each other speak with greater difficulty, breathed less of air, and saw less of the sky. Nature withdrew: the leaves were falling by midsummer; the sun shone through dirt with an admired obscurity.
–E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910), p. 91