“Some places in Donegal seem to me to brood under a perpetual twilight and silence—Glen-Columcille, for instance, and the valley running into it.”

Capturing the sombre atmosphere Campbell repeatedly found in the Donegal landscape · Mearing Stones, Twilight and Silence

• Nature
• Solitude

“Remoteness grips me, and is become a reality in this ultimate mearing of a grey, ultimate land.”

Expressing the almost physical force of isolation at the edge of the landscape · Mearing Stones, In Glen-Columcille

• Nature
• Solitude

“In towns the furthest we see is the other side of the street; but here there is no limit to one’s prospect—Perseus is as visible as Boötes—and one’s thought grows as space increases.”

Suggesting that physical horizons can enlarge the horizons of thought · Mearing Stones, Space

• Imagination
• Nature
• Solitude