Quotes by : Isabella Bird

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.....

An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs....

The Tibetans are dirty. They wash once a year and, except for festivals, seldom change their clothes....

My first experiences of Colorado travel have been rather severe. At Greeley, I got a small upstairs room....

In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many sincere....

There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland species,....

Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples....

One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood.....

Other lands may have their charms, and the sunny skies of other climes may be regretted, but it is with....