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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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“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

Author:Freya Stark

“youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.”

World Looks Problem Age Action Achieve Youth Harmony Luck Busy Cosmic Outlines

Author:Freya Stark

“The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is.”

People World Feels Trying Certain Doors This World Judging Stupidity Ignorant Pot Educate Bureaucracy Keepers Pints Gallons Monstrosity Scribes People Stupidity

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“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

“The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.”

Ifs World Mind Looks May Happens Knowing Atmosphere Continents Shells Blank Tourists Doorstep Snail Blank Mind

Book:Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq

Source: Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq

“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

“Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?”

World Should Moments This World Broken Miracle Buried Recalls Porcelain

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.”

World Littles Extraordinary Variety Parting Reconcile

Author:Freya Stark

“... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.”

People World Want Giving Feelings Home Found Nice Likes Rushing Permanence Restful

Book:Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46

Source: Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.”

World Strange Adventure Towns Pleasant Sensations

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.”

World Simple Rooms Simple Living

Author:Freya Stark

“On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.”

World Years Art Philosophy Whole Light Age Young Quiet Abstract Regions Truthful Pale Doorways Young And Old

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.”

World Way May Has Beens Matter Moments Lying Goal Imagination Rivers Wander Range Tangible Great Moments

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

About the Author

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

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The Journey's Echo: SelectionsRelated source material

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Perseus In The Wind: A Life of TravelRelated source material

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