chalk-rivers

Updated: May 20, 2025

Of all the species of lovely scenery which England holds, none, perhaps, is more exquisite than the banks of the chalk-rivers the perfect limpidity of the water, the gay and luxuriant vegetation of the banks and ditches, the masses of noble wood embosoming the villages, the unique beauty of the water-meadows, living sheets of emerald and silver, tinkling and sparkling, cool under the fiercest sun, brilliant under the blackest clouds.

Charles Kingsley - Yeast: a Problem