Freya Stark

... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by…

— Freya Stark

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to…

— Freya Stark

The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words… beyond these, like an immense…

— Freya Stark

... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody…

— Freya Stark

One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into…

— Freya Stark

On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being…

— Freya Stark

Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but…

— Freya Stark

The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his…

— Freya Stark

The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is…

— Freya Stark

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands.…

— Freya Stark

A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial,…

— Freya Stark