Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.


Memories and portraits. Virginibus puerisque, and other papers (ed. 1906)


No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.