If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George Elliot, Middlemarch
I’ve been reading Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen, which I am really enjoying, and this is part of the epigraphs at the beginning of Book II. I’ve never read Middlemarch but I’m thinking I should.










