Which is the best kind of riches, money or Nature? For Robert Louis Stevenson it was Nature:
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
(Word from a fellow Saunterer reached us last month suggesting we quote this. It’s from page 47 of Lay Morals and Other Papers, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911.)
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