“The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen.”
Exploring Magnificent Waterfalls http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102004126?q=livingstone&p=par
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Scottish explorer and missionary 1813–1873Related quotes
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1039/1039-h/1039-h.htm
As quoted in Carl Anderson. Some notes about his life and work at Caltech. The first of a series of biographical sketches of Caltech faculty members. Engineering and Science, Vol. 15:1 (October 1951) http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:15.1.0
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
“Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen”
Quote of Rubens, in his letter to Count Annibale Chieppio (minister of the Duke of Mantua), February 2, 1608; as cited in Rembrandts Eyes', by w:Simon Schrama, Alfred A. Knopf, Borzoi Books, New York 1999, p. 130 (LPPR, 42)
Rubens reports in this quote about the overdoses of light, falling upon his recently-made altar-painting 'Virgin and Child Adored by Angels', (Rome, Santa Maria, Vallicella), 1607 which is fading the colors for the viewer.
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“Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.”
