Success A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies. Isabella Bird 24
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 31
Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, and banana groves suggest the boundless liberality... Isabella Bird 25
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 26
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 23
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 21
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 18
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 18
