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"Un paysage quelconque est un état de
l'âme" - ("Any sort of landscape is a condition of the soul" ).
H.F. Amiel, Journal Intime, 1852.
"When a traveller returneth home, let him
not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him".
Francis Bacon, Essays, 1597-1625.
"The difference between landscape and landscape
is small, but there is a great difference between the beholder".
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays - Nature, 1844.
"Countries, like people are loved for their
failings".
F. Yeats Brown, Bengal Lancer, 1930.
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"China? There lies a sleeping giant. Let him
sleep! For when he wakes he will move the world".
Napoleon, attrib.
"One needs more discretion than valor in
dealing with the Chinese".
Thomas Stevens, Around the World on a Bicycle, 1887.
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"Outer Mongolia....is such terra incognita
that Tibet is practically Coney Island by comparison".
John Gunther, Inside Asia, 1939.
"Tea even fails to thaw completely their
reserve".
James Gilmour, Among the Mongols, 1884.
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"The soft,blue, humanless sky of Australia,
the pale unwritten atmosphere of Australia. Tabula rasa. The
world a new leaf. And on the new leaf nothing".
D.H. Lawrence, Kangaroo, 1923.
"If you find Australians indoors, it's a
fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand".
Johnathan Aitken, Land of Fortune, 1971.
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"America is more wild and absurd than ever".
Edmund Burke, Letter to Lord Rockingham, 1769.
"America means opportunity, freedom, power".
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Uncollected Lectures, 1864.
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"What remains with you is the sense of a great outrage, magnificent but unforgivable. The
Spaniards tore down the Inca temples and grafted splendid churches and mansions on to their foundations. This is one
of the most beautiful monuments to bigotry and sheer stupid brutality in the whole world".
Christopher Isherwood, The Condor and the Cows, 1949. (On Cuzco)
"Peru, it may fairly said, is the only nation in the world which lived basically for a long
period on bird manure".
John Gunther, Inside South America, 1967.
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