Goethe

I'm reading the Sorrows of Young Werther at the moment by Goethe, and came across this quote which I liked:

"Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth."

I particularly like 'soft evenings' reminds me of some lovely evenings of pottering into the dusk last summer.

The Sorrows of Young Werther - Gutenberg Project
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Amazon.co.uk