Some Thoughts on the Common Toad | The Orwell Foundation
After the sort of winters we have had to endure recently, the spring does seem miraculous, because it has become gradually harder and harder to believe that it is actually going to happen.
George Orwell on the coming of spring during the darkest of times:
It comes seeping in everywhere, like one of those new poison gases which pass through all filters.
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.