Excursions Quote by Isabella Bird Download Open image “Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.” — Isabella Bird ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Excursions Japan Novelty Offers Planets
Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
The Japanese people have a strong connection with nature and the ocean and a huge respect for them. — Daniel Berehulak Copy Share Image
I've been to Japan so many times, but I still constantly stumble across things that are so foreign to me. — Travis Rice Copy Share Image
It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Japan is a very important market for us and has grown remarkably as one of the most popular travel destinations in the world. — Gillian Tans Copy Share Image
It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world. — Sadao Araki Copy Share Image
Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Japan is the only country I have visited that I want to go to again. I just feel the Japanese have such good taste… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used. — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
The situation of Leh is a grand one, the great Kailas range, with its glaciers and snowfields, rising just behind it to the north,… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
I was heartily sorry to leave Leh, with its dazzling skies and abounding colour and movement, its stirring topics of talk, and the culture… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Water is a beverage which I never enjoyed in purity and perfection before I visited America. It is provided in abundance in the cars,… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
An American store is generally a very extensive apartment, handsomely decorated, the roof frequently supported on marble pillars. The owner or clerk is seen… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist. — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Malacca is such a rest after the crowds of Japan and the noisy hurry of China! Its endless afternoon remains unbroken except by the… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests of date… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
What I do, the teacher of the nagual, is open up the bubble of your luminosity and allow the luminous being to take short… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Home is a blueprint of memory...Finding home is crucial to the act of writing. Begin here. With what you know. With the tales you've… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over.… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I drive a V10 Ford Excursion and I have to tell folks all the time: look I've got five kids and a dog and… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows,… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
