An Old Story

“In the end, the people of the cottage were bored. It was all a kind of crowd that talked a lot about loving nature, marveling at the sea distances, sunsets, and clouds on a mysterious peak of the gloomy headland—but almost all of them came from big cities, where they only saw nature in paintings and were too used to thinking of it as something magical, something that could completely change life and provide some special, incredible pleasures…”