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