Quoting Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, Ch. VIII: Banda Oriental and Patagonia, 1839

All is stillness and desolation. One reflects how many centuries it has thus been, and how many more it will thus remain. Yet in this scene without one bright object there is high pleasure which I can neither explain or comprehend.
— Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, Ch. VIII: Banda Oriental and Patagonia, 1839

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