Colin Thubron Quotes

A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.

mountains, and cried: 'That is the tomb of Kochoi, the companion of Manas!

A journey is not a cure. It brings an illusion, only, of change, and becomes at best a spartan comfort

Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken