James Hamilton-Paterson Quote

There is a psychological accuracy in this insistence that a proper life cannot be lived without pilgrimage, a journey, a great excursion and abandoning of towns, village, hearth. Only in this way is the unsuspected majesty of the world revealed.


Seven-Tenths: The Sea and its Thresholds (1992)


There is a psychological accuracy in this insistence that a proper life cannot be lived without pilgrimage, a journey, a great excursion and...

There is a psychological accuracy in this insistence that a proper life cannot be lived without pilgrimage, a journey, a great excursion and...

There is a psychological accuracy in this insistence that a proper life cannot be lived without pilgrimage, a journey, a great excursion and...

There is a psychological accuracy in this insistence that a proper life cannot be lived without pilgrimage, a journey, a great excursion and...