Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.
Richard Le GallienneAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: english
- Born: January 20, 1866
- Died: September 15, 1947
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