To look is much less easy than to overlook, and to be able to see what we do see, is a great gift.
John Lubbock
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The Pleasures of Life, chapterVIII “The Beauties of Nature”; Read chapter heading and opening discussion of attentive observation. This sentence is Lubbock’s own prose, preceding a separately marked Ruskin quotation. Original public-domain English text.
- The Pleasures of Life, chapterVIII “The Beauties of Nature”
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