“This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.” HumansDoeExistenceDesertCharmThreadHuman ExistenceAccessoriesSuspended Book:Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq Source: Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq
“Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.” PersonsDoeOrderPracticeMillionsGenerationsTroubleEasierHarmRejectsFlawsOminous Author:Freya Stark
“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 as exciting as the day before yesterday.” IfsKnowsYearsMindDoeTwoHappensDealsPerspectiveThousandExcitingYesterdayThousand YearsManuscriptsPersian Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
“... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.” ThinkingDoeGovernmentGivenWalksStreetsSubjectsCivilizationWretchedness Author:Freya Stark
“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” GivingDoeArtMadeLife IsStuffQualityClearJourneyThis WorldTravelEverydaySettingSettingsNovelistsTime TravelTraveledTravelerEveryday LifeTravel WritingPlaces In The WorldGemsGreat TravelInspiring TravelTravel The WorldSeeing The WorldPhotography And TravelRoads TraveledTravel AbroadFavorite PlacesRoads And JourneysMeaning Of Art Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
