Q 1- why does the next door garden seems foriegn land to the child
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This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.
The Silverado Squatters.
There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign, and now and again, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the ear.
The Silverado Squatters.
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
An Inland Voyage (1878), Ch. III, "The Royal Sport Nautique".
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
An Inland Voyage (1878).
Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
An Inland Voyage (1878).
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
'La Fère of Cursed Memory', 15th vignette of An Inland Voyage (1878), in Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson, Stevenson, e-artnow (2015)
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1878).
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought. The words, if the book be eloquent, should run thenceforward in our ears like the noise of breakers, and the story, if it be a story, repeat itself in a thousand coloured pictures to the eye.
A Gossip on Romance, printed in Longman's Magazine (November 1882).
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
A Gossip on Romance, printed in Longman's Magazine (November 1882).