Success A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies. Isabella Bird 5
Design Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural idea... Isabella Bird 9
Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, and banana groves suggest the boundless liberality... Isabella Bird 8
Truth One of the most marvelous features of Canton is the city of house boats, floating and stationary, in which about a quarter of a million people live... Isabella Bird 11
Alone The situation of Leh is a grand one, the great Kailas range, with its glaciers and snowfields, rising just behind it to the north, its passes alone... Isabella Bird 7
Beauty The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from... Isabella Bird 7
Beauty In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many sincere Buddhists; but China is irreligious: a... Isabella Bird 7
Car Water is a beverage which I never enjoyed in purity and perfection before I visited America. It is provided in abundance in the cars, the hotels,... Isabella Bird 10
