Isabella L. Bird Quotes

#1. The scarcely audible whisper of soft airs through the trees morning and evening, rain drops falling gently, and the murmur of drowsy surges far below, alone break the stillness.

Isabella L. Bird

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

Isabella L. Bird

#3. Yet, after all, they were not bad souls; and though he failed so grotesquely, he did his incompetent best.

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#4. It is a strange life up here on the mountain side, but I like it, and never yearn after civilization.

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#5. I still vote civilization a nuisance, society a humbug and all conventionality a crime.

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#6. There is also a dog, but he does not understand English,

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#7. I dreamt of bears so vividly that I woke with a furry death hug at my throat, but feeling quite refreshed.

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#8. Everything suggests a beyond.

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#9. I sat down and knitted for some time - my usual resource under discouraging circumstances.

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#10. Oh! To be beyond the pale once more, out of civilization into savagery? I abhor civilization!

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#11. Truly a good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable travelling.

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#12. People live more happily than any that I have seen elsewhere. It is very cheerful to live among people whose faces are not soured by the east wind, or wrinkled by the worrying effort to "keep up appearances," which deceive nobody;

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#13. In traveling, there is nothing like dissecting people's statements, which are usually colored by their estimate of the powers or likings of the person spoken to, making all reasonable inquiries, and then pertinaciously but quietly carrying out one's own plans.

Isabella L. Bird