Quote#Wisdom
A real is never contented with maps of places and pictures of things,…
Quote byAnna Botsford Comstock · 1854–1930
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: (152 pages; quote from p. 140; story 1st published in the Cornell Nature-study Bulletin for June 1899).
English (original)
A real is never contented with maps of places and pictures of things, but always desires to see the places and things themselves.
— Anna Botsford Comstock
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