Bits from my book (3)

For the first time in her life she turned with violence against nature.  Elk-hounds and rose bushes were about her in profusion.  But elk-hounds and rose bushes can none of them read.  It is a lementable oversight on the part of Providence which had never struck her before.  Human beings alone are thus gifted.  Human beings had become necessary.

Orlando - Virginia Woolf