“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as they do - an… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
