Excerpts from Fanny's commonplace book

"If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder."
-Martin Luther



"What I know of the divine sciences and the Holy Scriptures, I learnt in the woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks."
-St Bernard of Clairvaux


"The natural object is always the adequate symbol."
-Ezra Pound