Isabella Bird Quotes

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

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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.

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The sunset has passed through every stage of beauty, through every glory of color, through riot and triumph, through pathos and tenderness, into a long, dreamy, painless rest, succeeded by the profound solemnity of the moonlight, and a stillness broken only by the night cries of beasts in the aromatic forests.

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

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

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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...

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Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

Isabella Bird

Isabella Bird

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Born: October 15, 1831

Died: October 7, 1904 (aged 72)

Bio: Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar.

Known for:

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880)
A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains (1879)
Korea and Her Neighbours (1897)
The Englishwoman in America (1856)
Among the Tibetans (1894)

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