natural world is
engaging and innocent
as it ever was
Adapted from:
If the vexatious world of people were the whole world, I would not enjoy it at all.
But it is only a small, though noisy, part of the whole; and I find the natural world as engaging and as innocent as it ever was.
When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do.
Or what the weather does.
This sustains me very well indeed and I have no complaints.
Letter to Carrie A. Wilson, May 1, 1951; Letters of E. B. White, Rev. Ed., p. 306.
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