Matthew Lewellyn

“I implore them with my eyes: Speak to me—take me up—take me, Life of my Youth—you who are care-free, beautiful—receive me again— I wait, I wait. Images float through my mind, but they do not grip me, they are mere shadows and memories. Nothing—nothing—”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“It is when one is alone that one begins to observe Nature and to love her.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Well, that’s just the way things are done,” but does that actually have to be the way things are handled in our future? If so, what is the point of even trying to progress?”
― Aja Barber, Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism

“It was not any recognition of their beauty and their significance that attracted us, but the communion, the feeling of a comradeship with the things and events of our existence, which cut us off and made the world of our parents a thing incomprehensible to us—for then we surrendered ourselves to events and were lost in them, and the least little thing was enough to carry us down the stream of eternity.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front