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.
Source: Essays, The Spirit of Place, 1914.
-- Alice Meynell, (Sep 22 1847-1922), English poet, essayist; Her prose essays were collected in Colour of Life, 1896; befriended poet Francis Thompson.