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Freya Stark, born on January 31, 1893, and died on May 9, 1993, was a renowned British explorer. She is best known for her expeditions in the Middle East, where she conducted in-depth research on local culture, history, and geography.

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Famous Freya Stark Quotes

“One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.”

People Thinking Believe Stills Reason Moving I Believe Half Broken Difficulty Affection Fixed Quantity Tides Going Out Allowance Friendship Broken

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“If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Looks Faces Given Window Look Up Eastern

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“I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.”

Thinking Should Body Age Thirty Consideration

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“Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.”

Thinking World Humans May Stills Use Natural Human Beings Animal Technology Advantage Machines Bounds Intimacy Ease Natural World Intercourse

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.”

Thinking Facts Age Numbers Worst Finals Defeat Old Age Preparation

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“There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.”

People Thinking World May Two Sometimes Natural Land This World Nomad Antipathy

Book:A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen

Source: A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen

“I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.”

People Thinking Firsts Humans Sometimes Night Sound Voice Water Crowds Woods Human Voice Sound Of Water

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.”

Thinking Doe Government Given Walks Streets Subjects Civilization Wretchedness

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“It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.”

Thinking Unexpected Customs Officers

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.”

Thinking Heart Stills Moving Universe Beats Aging Perpetual Perpetual Motion

Book:The Lycian Shore

Source: The Lycian Shore

“The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.”

Thinking Enough Hands Bigs Lasts Turns Space Forget Pleasure Flower Destruction Breaths Rounds Gentle Obsessed Weed Rejoice Brushes Gardener Reformers Sadistic

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“To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense”

Thinking Feels Real Young Alive

Book:Letters: The furnace and the cup, 1914-30

Source: Letters: The furnace and the cup, 1914-30

About the Author

Born: January 31, 1893
Died: May 9, 1993
Known for: Explorer
Quotes: 126

Books & Sources

The Journey's Echo: SelectionsRelated source material

the zodiac archRelated source material

Perseus In The Wind: A Life of TravelRelated source material

The Lycian ShoreRelated source material

A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through YemenRelated source material

Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through IraqRelated source material

Ionia: A QuestRelated source material

Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46Related source material

Letters: The furnace and the cup, 1914-30Related source material

Baghdad SketchesRelated source material

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