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Quotation by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson (69)Additional Sources
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)Across the Plains (1892)"An Apology for Idlers" Virginibus Puerisque (1881)"A Night Among the Pines" Travels With a Donkey (1879)Blows the Wind TodayRelated Subjects
moon (7) day (7) love (6) darkness (6) death (5) stars (5) animals (5) flowers (5) sleep (4) camping (4)
Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet. "A Night Among the Pines," Travels with a Donkey (1879).
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