Quotes from book
The Silverado Squatters

Name: The Silverado Squatters
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

The Silverado Squatters is Robert Louis Stevenson's travel memoir of his two-month honeymoon trip with Fanny Vandegrift to Napa Valley, California, in 1880.

“This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Silverado Squatters

The Silverado Squatters.

“There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Silverado Squatters

The Silverado Squatters.
Context: There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign, and now and again, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the ear.

“But the more he is alone with nature, the greater man and his doings bulk in the consideration of his fellow-men.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Silverado Squatters

Toils And Pleasures.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)

“The imagination loves to trifle with what is not.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Silverado Squatters

The Sea Fogs
The Silverado Squatters (1883)

“Sanity itself is a kind of convention.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Silverado Squatters

The Hunter’s Family
The Silverado Squatters (1883)

“Though the coming of the day is still the most inspiriting, yet day's departure, also, and the return of night refresh, renew, and quiet us; and in the pastures of the dusk we stand, like cattle, exulting in the absence of the load.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Silverado Squatters

Toils And Pleasures.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)