The Story of My Heart. Richard Jefferies

included walking eight to ten miles every day.

      He loved the human form and loved the statues that captured it, particularly those carved in marble from Greece. “The smallest fragment of marble carved in the shape of an arm will wake the desire I felt in my hill-prayer.” Sparta, the ancient city-state in Greece, was the standard of perfection for Jefferies, where “the most perfect human families” lived.