"The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging……" — Robert Louis Stevenson

"The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages."

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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