Isabella Bird Quotes

United Kingdom, Explorer
October 15, 1831 – October, 7, 1904.

Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.

Isabella Bird
- Planets
- Offers
- Novelty
I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.

Isabella Bird
- Dream
- Seeking
- Exceed

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

Isabella Bird
- World
- Lips
- Phrases
I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

Isabella Bird
- Dream
- Might
- Sigh
Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.

Isabella Bird
- Gold
- Medicine
- Weight
On Malaysia: Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!

Isabella Bird
- World
- Wonder
- Travel
Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.

Isabella Bird
- Home
- Travel
- Advantage
The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

Isabella Bird