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The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.
— Isabella Bird
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
You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.
— Susan Orlean
Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.
— E.F. Schumacher
I live in the country. I'm a bird-watcher, an oyster-raiser. You know, I'll do anything that - raise dogs for the blind as a volunteer.
— Isabella Rossellini
There's a big difference between confidence and conceit.
— Johnny Unitas
Yet, after all, they were not bad souls; and though he failed so grotesquely, he did his incompetent best.
— Isabella L. Bird
Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.
— Isabella Bird
Truly a good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable travelling.
— Isabella L. Bird
I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living, in regions unaffected by European contact.
— Isabella Bird
Everything suggests a beyond.
— Isabella L. Bird
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
No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I sat down and knitted for some time - my usual resource under discouraging circumstances.
— Isabella L. Bird
It is a strange life up here on the mountain side, but I like it, and never yearn after civilization.
— Isabella L. Bird
If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.
— Isabella Bird
I dreamt of bears so vividly that I woke with a furry death hug at my throat, but feeling quite refreshed.
— Isabella L. Bird
I still vote civilization a nuisance, society a humbug and all conventionality a crime.
— Isabella L. Bird
The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight.
— Isabella Bird
A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.
— Isabella Bird
I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.
— Isabella Bird
There is also a dog, but he does not understand English,
— Isabella L. Bird
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