Peru, it may be fairly said, is the only nation in the world which lived basically for a long time on bird manure.
Places Quotes
Denmark is no vacation paradise. It is cold and rainy and dark except for June and July, when it’s extremely expensive.
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image.
Iowa, a really fecund state, throws its corn over into Nebraska and Illinois, and its old folks all the way to California.
Washington was a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers – all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than […]
Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth.
In North Carolina, it is winter on the Outer Banks. At this time of year you can walk nearly 100 miles down the wild barrier beaches without meeting another living soul. Hunch your back against the wind, put your hands in your pockets and ponder, as you walk, the mystery of the first Europeans to […]
New Zealand seems far better adapted to developand maintain in health the physical than the intellectual nature.
A mountain here is only beautiful if it has good grass on it. Scenery is not scenery – it is ‘country’… If it is good for sheep, it is beautiful, magnificent, and all the rest of it; if not, it is not worth looking at.
