性本爱丘山 (性本愛丘山) xìng běn ài qiūshān

xìng běn ài qiūshān phrase my only love was for the mountains
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: from the poem 歸園田居 “Returning to the Fields” by 陶淵明 Tao Yuanming 365-427 in Scroll 2 of 陶淵明集 Tao Yuanming Collected Poems (Amies 2021 tr.; see also tr. by Waley 1919, p. 113)

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