“Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. It is recalled all a lifetime, having been perceived a week, and is not scattered but abides, one living body of remembrance.”—Alice Meynell, “Spirit of Place” (1899), in The Essays by Alice Meynell (Centenary Edition), by Sir Francis Meynell
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