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Isabella Bird quotes: The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

Isabella Bird quotes: Unlike many other places, Hilo is more fascinating on closer acquaintance - so fascinating that it is hard to write about it in plain prose.

Unlike many other places, Hilo is more fascinating on closer acquaintance - so fascinating that it is hard to write about it in plain prose.

Isabella Bird quotes: It is extremely interesting to live in a private house and to see the externalities, at least, of domestic life in a Japanese middle-class home.

It is extremely interesting to live in a private house and to see the externalities, at least, of domestic life in a Japanese middle-class home.

Isabella Bird quotes: Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.

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

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 quotes: A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

Isabella Bird quotes: The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight.

The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight.

Isabella Bird quotes: The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

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

Isabella Bird quotes: If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.

If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.

Isabella Bird quotes: Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.

Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.

Isabella Bird quotes: I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living, in regions unaffected by European contact.

I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living, in regions unaffected by European contact.

Isabella Bird quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.

Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.