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“every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.”

Book:Ionia: A Quest

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Ionia: A Quest

An exploration of the historical and cultural landscape of Ionia, focusing on a quest narrative. more

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Freya Stark

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. more

“The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them.”

Knows May Past History Our Lives Journey Fields Grew Draws Treasure Harvest Provision Reap

Book:The Lycian Shore

Source: The Lycian Shore

“I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.”

People Asks Moral Aim Ask Me Dislike Shocked

Author:Freya Stark

“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

“We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.”

Knows Might Dies Magic Tree Stem Underestimate Bark Conductor Sap Dullness

Book:The Lycian Shore

Source: The Lycian Shore

“Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different point, and repaying this loving study, if it is anything of a mountain at all, by a gradual revelation of personality, an increase of significance.”

Ifs Humans Different Human Beings Views Known Study Personality Mountain Creatures Increase Revelations Significance Composites Repaying

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.”

Humans I Can Feelings Natural Sky New York Building Goes On Bed Exciting Shopping Get Over Pencils Floats Taxi Builder Canyons Erosion

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

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

“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

Author:Freya Stark

“The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.”

Two Order Impact Creator Mythology Categories Divided Terrific Destroyers

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“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.”

Persons Doe Order Practice Millions Generations Trouble Easier Harm Rejects Flaws Ominous

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