Г.К. Честертон скептически отзывался о британских имперских амбициях, мотивируя это своей любовью к одному природному явлению. Какому?
Закат.
"I was not overwhelmed in childhood, by being told of remote stars which the sun never reached, any more than in manhood by being told of an empire on which the sun never set. I had no use for an empire that had no sunsets."