"Houses, are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary, incapable of gay transition. I admit, doubtfully, as exceptions, snail-shells and caravans. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting-place."
Arthur Ransome (January 18, 1884 – June 3, 1967)
(Swallows and Amazons series of novels).
2 comments:
Perfect! I may have to steal that.
Feel free, I did.
Gerry
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