"I think that travel comes from some deep……" — Lord Dunsany
"I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full."
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Lord Dunsany
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16 Quotes by Lord Dunsany
Lord Dunsany has 16 quotes on this site.
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Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in a automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at a terrific…
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Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
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I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the…
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Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current, rather, that is somehow akin to the…
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It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to…
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How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.
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And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches,…
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And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for…
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And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever…
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Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that…
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There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it,…
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Once I found out the secret of the universe. I have forgotten what it was, but I know that the…
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An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell…
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The worst case scenario sees the Amazon rainforest burning, huge amounts of methane being released by Siberian peat bogs and…
— Mark Lynas
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Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
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A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching…
— John Milton
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It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog…
— Henry David Thoreau
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As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about,…
— Plutarch
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For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'
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