Miriam Beard

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

#certainly #change #deep #goes #ideas

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

— Miriam Beard

#delicate #extraordinarily #japan #learn #like

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks. ↗

— Miriam Beard

#greeks #muses #only #professions #recently

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation. ↗

— Miriam Beard

#beyond #calculation #philanthropy #results

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

#astonish #atlantic #bizarre #else #go