“India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.” ArtHumanityCitiesPovertyCreativityLandCivilizationIndiaEnormousPlentyUpliftingDaily LifeVillageMagnificentSparkle Author:Pranab Mukherjee
“Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them."” PeopleKnowsAgeBeautifulUsedKnownLandMiddleGoes OnOughtHolyMountainVillageDo You KnowHikingMiddle AgesPilgrimageSaunteringInspiring TravelHiking In The MountainsBeautiful WordsHoly Land Author:John Muir
“The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.” SeemsMoneyLandObjectsUniversalDollarsGenuineDevotionVillagePeculiarAlmightyDevotee Author:Washington Irving
“Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.” WorldWellsDoeWholeFacesLyingNightStarsWaterNatureLinesSkyLandFiguresGreatnessPureRedStonesLaysWhole WorldFranceVillageProvincesStainsNight SkyAcresHutsTwinklingTale Of Two CitiesPure WaterTwinkling Stars Book:A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated) Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)
“The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.” ImportantDifferentFeelingsSpaceBreakPlansSocietyLandHabitTravelSpeechImportant ThingsReactionsLandscapeVillageFormationTourismHabitualTravel And TourismForeign Lands Book:Five years Source: Five years
“I think London is made up of tiny little pockets and villages, and lots of little sub-cultures. So, especially for an actor, it's a brilliant place to live because you've got inspiration all the time, wherever you are. You can turn a corner and you'll be in mansion houses with beautiful gardens and Ferraris, and you'll turn back on yourself and it'll be ghetto land. But I think that's brilliant.” ThinkingLittlesMadeInspirationBeautifulTurnsCultureActorsHouseLandGardenCornersLondonBrilliantTinyPocketsVillageGhettoMansionsPlaces To LiveWherever You AreFerrari Author:Scarlett Alice Johnson
“I'm an artist living in a small, Scottish village. So one would expect to be treated with some sort of caution. And the village and the farmers have shown enormous tolerance of me and interest in what I do. I mean, they don't necessarily understand what I'm doing all the time. But they, you know, I think they respect what I do and that there is a connection between what they do with the land and what I do, you know, that we're both dependent on weather and respond to that.” ThinkingKnowsMeanArtistInterestLandConnectionsToleranceEnormousTreatedWeatherDependentVillageDo You KnowFarmersCautionScottishHey You Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico, we were astounded.” WarWaterLevelsCitiesSawsLandBuiltTownsDryVillageMexicoAstoundedDry Land Book:The Conquest of New Spain Source: The Conquest of New Spain