Ian Sidaway Fine Line

"Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witne...

"When Victor Hugo was buried, you couldn't find a whore in Paris, they were too busy paying their respects. That was a man-and he ...

"He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing more tragic. Nothing is more subli...

"Love Children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to gui...

"Rest is not idleness, to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summers day, listening to the murmer of water, or watching cloud...

"Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now." (William Wordsworth. 'To a butterfly') ...

"The truth is not one of us is innocent. We all have sins to confess." (Catherine de Medici) ...

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of ...