April 10, 2013
grandlifehotels: “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. ― Robert Louis Stevenson

grandlifehotels:

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.


― Robert Louis Stevenson

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January 28, 2013

(Source: art-and-veganism)

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January 19, 2013
“ It is a sore thing to have laboured along and scaled the arduous hilltops, and when all is done, find humanity indifferent to your achievement. Hence physicists condemn the unphysical; financiers have only a superficial toleration for those who know little of stocks; literary persons despise the unlettered; and people of all pursuits combine to disparage those who have none.
R.L.S., “An Apology for Idlers” (via invisiblestories)
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November 20, 2012
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON’S BABY BOOK (1922)

A remarkable record of the first few years of author Robert Louis Stevenson’s life, as noted down by his mother in a “Baby Book”. The book featured above, published in 1922, consists of a facsimile of the original handwritten baby book followed by a transcription. 

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November 20, 2011
Stevenson’s other island | TLS
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November 23, 2010

Radiolab and NPR Present Words (via Radi0Lab)

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August 30, 2009
In a taxi on the way home from the airport. Unfortunately the little white poodle the driver had on her lap didn’t want to show his face ….. or the jaunty little cap he was sporting.

In a taxi on the way home from the airport. Unfortunately the little white poodle the driver had on her lap didn’t want to show his face ….. or the jaunty little cap he was sporting.

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29-08-09 In the kitchen at Mum’s.

29-08-09 In the kitchen at Mum’s.

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28-08/09 Helping to get the field set up for Heather’s big birthday party.

28-08/09 Helping to get the field set up for Heather’s big birthday party.

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27/08/09 Buying a bigger bag at T K Maxx.

27/08/09 Buying a bigger bag at T K Maxx.

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