"The West Coast is a place where Spring flowers carpet the landscape and the cold Atlantic Ocean provides the local fishermen with their daily catch."

"This is a pretty and singular town; it lies at the foot of an enormous wall (the Table Mountain), which reaches into the clouds, and makes a most imposing barrier."

“When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.”

"Wherever you go, you see them. Whenever you see them, they go..."

“Nature does nothing uselessly.” 

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”