The Two Paths

Citations

• “That is what the colour of the earth would be without its iron; that would be its colour, not here or there only, but in all places, and at all times.”

• “Think first of your pretty gravel walks in your gardens, yellow and fine, like plots of sunshine between the flower- beds; fancy them all suddenly turned to the colour of ashes.”

• “And what do you suppose dyes your tiles of cottage roof? You don't paint them. It is nature who puts all that lovely vermilion into the clay for you; and all that lovely vermilion is this oxide of iron.”