'I had always been meaning to secure the moment of recognition and make it my own. Perhaps NOW was it.'
'Even the old signs, in disrepair and no longer used - telling us nothing and meaning less - stood sentinel over a world long gone away.'
'Stand forward, stand high - at the site of the old Tea Water Pump; 1800.'
'Like the old oasis with its awesome winter trees I shall be anchored and I shall be bent - but I shall never leave the grasp of my own thrust onto this feeble Earth - for I shall be secured by other places indeed.'