In the South Seas Quotes

“The first experience can never be repeated.  The first love, the first sunrise, the first South Sea island, are memories apart and touched a virginity of sense. ”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas

“Few men who come to the islands leave them; they grow grey where they alighted; the palm shades and the trade-wind fans them till they die, perhaps cherishing to the last the fancy of a visit home, which is rarely made, more rarely enjoyed, and yet more rarely repeated.  No part of the world exerts the same attractive power upon the visitor,”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas

“After the moon went down, the heaven was a thing to wonder at for stars. ”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas

“For the cocoa-tree and the island man are both lovers and neighbours of the surf.  ‘The coral waxes, the palm grows, but man departs,’ says the sad Tahitian proverb; but they are all three, so long as they endure, co-haunters of the beach.  The”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas

“Ua maomao ka lani, ua kahaea luna, Ua pipi ka maka o ka hoku. (The heavens were fair, they stretched above, Many were the eyes of the stars.)”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas