Isabella Bird Quotes

• I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.

  Isabella Bird

  Dream, Has Beens, Exceed

  Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.

  Isabella Bird

  Appreciation, Travel, Home

  Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

  Isabella Bird

  Dream, Looks, Might

  Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.

  Isabella Bird

  Japan, Novelty, Planets

  Isabella Lucy Bird (2010). “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Volume 1: An Account of Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.

  Isabella Bird

  Medicine, Gold, Weight

  Isabella Bird (2010). “The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither”, p.228, Cambridge University Press

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• Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

  Isabella Bird

  United States, Phrases, World

  Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.128, Courier Corporation

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• The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

  Isabella Bird

  Money, Dollars, Divinity

  Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• [On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!

  Isabella Bird

  Travel, Despair, World

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