Commonplace Book

'...We spend so much of our time out of doors too, that we become sensitive to the various changes of temperature and aspect which mark the different hours of the day. If I lived here much longer I should get to understand the wonderful rise and swell and fall of the land. It is like some vast living thing, and all its insects and animals, save man, are exquisitely in time with it. If you lie on the earth somewhere you hear a sound like a vast breath, as though it were the very inspiration of earth herself, and all the living things on her.'

from Life in the Fields, a piece in the 1903 diary in A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals by Virginia Woolf