Ronald Blythe Quotes
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
Blythe, Ronald. The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979, p. 4.
Where societies have elderly people in households, it tells us much about the values of the society and the culture. In some societies, people do not live to be elderly, and in others, those that do are not very much respected.
Ronald George Blythe, CBE is an English writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (1969), an account of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s. Until recently he wrote a long-running and considerably praised weekly column in the Church Times entitled Word from Wormingford.
