Mari > Mari's Quotes

“Truly a good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable travelling.”
― Isabella L. Bird, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

“Everything suggests a beyond.”
― Isabella L. Bird, A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

“people live more happily than any that I have seen elsewhere.  It is very cheerful to live among people whose faces are not soured by the east wind, or wrinkled by the worrying effort to “keep up appearances,” which deceive nobody;”
― Isabella L. Bird, The Hawaiian Archipelago

“I still vote civilization a nuisance, society a humbug and all conventionality a crime.”
― Isabella Bird

“It is a strange life up here on the mountain side, but I like it, and never yearn after civilization. ”
― Isabella L. Bird, The Hawaiian Archipelago

“Oh! To be beyond the pale once more, out of civilization into savagery? I abhor civilization!”
― Isabella Bird