Words of Note

October 6, 1999

The way to look at the country is to look at the same bit over and over again. There is a field above me which I am just beginning to understand after having paced it a hundred times. Not by a tourist can the country be known.

Mark Rutherford, 19th-century British writer

In 'Last Pages from a Journal' (1915).

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