"The slightest living thing answers a deeper need……" — Freya Stark
"The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood."
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Freya Stark
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53 Quotes by Freya Stark
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We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
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There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
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You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown…
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The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.
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