If a well were sunk at our feet in the midst of the city of Norwich, the diggers would very soon find themselves at work in that white substance almost too soft to be called rock, with which we are all familiar as 'chalk.'

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.

The chalk is no unimportant element in the masonry of the earth's crust, and it impresses a peculiar stamp, varying with the conditions to which it is exposed,…

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways; and…

Before the ferry leaves a horse and wagon comes aboard, a brokendown springwagon loaded with flowers, driven by a little brown man with high cheekbones. Jimmy …

On Melbourne summer mornings the green trams go rolling in stately progress down tunnels thick with leaves: the bright air carries along the avenue their patie…

New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment …