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Isabella Bird Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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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