Quote by Miriam Beard
Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not simil

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as the bizarre. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else. – Miriam Beard

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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Miriam Beard

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One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness. – Miriam Beard

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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by. – Cynthia Ozick

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I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon. – Wallis Simpson

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Two great talkers will not travel far together. – George Borrow

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I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars. – Henry Rollins

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