Life & Wisdom Quote by Leonard Alfred George Strong

People, for Leonard Strong, aren’t just characters in your life; they’re landscapes you return to. The line tilts friendship away from the tidy, modern ideal of “quality time” and toward something older and more sensory: the desire to inhabit a presence the way you inhabit a beloved city or coastline. It’s a little possessive, a little romantic, and it works because it admits what we usually sand down in polite language: attachment isn’t abstract. It’s geographic.

Strong’s key move is the reclassification of “real people” as “places.” Places don’t owe you coherence or performance; they’re allowed to change with weather and season. That metaphor quietly rejects the expectation that someone should always be at their most charming, available, or legible. “All weathers” signals the full range: bad moods, illness, boredom, grief, the unphotogenic hours. “All times of the year” adds a long-view devotion, the willingness to stay curious when novelty has burned off. The intent isn’t to idealize constancy; it’s to normalize variance.

There’s also subtext about how intimacy actually forms: through repetition and exposure, not through perfectly curated encounters. Wanting to “see them” suggests an almost pilgrim-like practice, returning not to consume but to recognize. In a writer’s register, it’s an aesthetic claim too: the most truthful portrait of a person, like the most truthful sense of a place, requires multiple visits under changing light.

Contextually, it sits comfortably in a twentieth-century British literary sensibility that prizes observation over confession. Strong makes closeness sound less like a dramatic vow and more like a habit of attention. That restraint is precisely what makes the affection land.