“ Outdoor rustic people have not many ideas, but such as they have are hardy plants and thrive flourishingly in persecution. ”
Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879). copy citation
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Source | Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes |
| Topic | persecution outdoor |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Travels_with_a_Donkey_in_the_Cevennes |
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“Ireland is still Catholic; the Cévennes still Protestant. It is not a basketful of law-papers, nor the hoofs and pistol-butts of a regiment of horse, that can change one tittle of a ploughman's thoughts. Outdoor rustic people have not many ideas, but such as they have are hardy plants and thrive flourishingly in persecution. One who has grown a long while in the sweat of laborious noons, and under the stars at night, a frequenter of hills and forests, an old honest countryman, has, in the end, a sense of communion with the powers of the universe, and amicable relations towards his God.”
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