A Drive Through the Country Near Bristol
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Clifton, Bristol (today: Bristol, UK)
‘Abdu’l-Bahá spent the week end of September 23rd to 25th, at the Clifton Guest House at Clifton, Bristol.
On the first afternoon, while driving, He expressed much interest in rural England, marvelling at the century-old trees, and the vivid green of the woods and downs, so unlike the arid East. "Though it is autumn it seems like spring," He said. The houses with their little plots of ground, suggested a quotation which ‘Abdu’l-Bahá gave from Bahá’u’lláh's writings in which the latter alludes to each family having a house with a piece of land. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá likened the country to the soul and the city to the body of man, saying, "The body without the soul cannot live. It is good," He remarked, "to live under the sky, in the sunshine and fresh air."
Source: ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London, p. 81 (The Visit to Bristol, September 1911)
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