“All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?” PeopleEarthWaterPleasureWonderSeaTravelTrackShipsStreamsUp And Down Book:Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures Source: Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures
“... at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be Jews or Turks or heathens, they will speak in a tongue all can understand. there are even countries where the moving, breathing people are less intelligible, dwell in a world further apart form you, than that silent population under the earth.” PeopleWorldCountryEarthMovingFormSpeakCompanyQuietSilentPopulationJewTongueBreathingMusingsHeathen Book:Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea Source: Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea
