Some Romany quotes - as relevant today as 60 years ago:

'Once again I saw those majestic hills. I was consoled to think that no lorry will ever replace the sheepdog. Whilst the hills remain there will always be a shepherd and his dog. Thank God for such precipitous and inaccessible places.'   'Nobody ever grows old merely by living a number of years. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up one's enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.'   'The wind had done its job well. It had left a world swept clear of noisome vapours, and in these days of belching chimneys and fumes from a million engines it is something for which we should feel grateful.'   'I wonder whether our ears would be more serviceable if they stood out from the head and could turn in all directions, even as a horse's ears do. Perhaps their delicacy has been coarsened by hearing too many motor -horns and the ceaseless grind of civilisation's machinery.'   'Only human beings have motives, so they alone can be cruel.'