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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains QUOTES

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains QUOTES

1 " I sat down and knitted for some time - my usual resource under discouraging circumstances. "

― Isabella Lucy Bird , A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

2 " Everything suggests a beyond. "

― Isabella Lucy Bird , A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

3 " In traveling, there is nothing like dissecting people's statements, which are usually colored by their estimate of the powers or likings of the person spoken to, making all reasonable inquiries, and then pertinaciously but quietly carrying out one's own plans. "

― Isabella Lucy Bird , A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

4 " Yet, after all, they were not bad souls; and though he failed so grotesquely, he did his incompetent best. "

― Isabella Lucy Bird , A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

5 " I dreamt of bears so vividly that I woke with a furry death hug at my throat, but feeling quite refreshed. "

― Isabella Lucy Bird , A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

6 " Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases "biggest in the world", "finest in the world", are on all lips. Unless president Hayes is a strong manthey will soon come to boast that their government is composed of the "biggest scoundrels" in the world. "

― Isabella Lucy Bird , A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

7 " By sunlight or moonlight, its splintered grey crest is the one object which, in spire of wapitu and bighorn, skunk and grizzli, unfailingly arrests the eyes. From it come all storms of snow and wind, and the forked lightnings play around its head like a glory. It is one of he noblest of mountains, but in one's imagination it grows to be much more than a mountain. It becomes invested with a personality. "

― Isabella Lucy Bird , A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

8 " For the benefit of other lady travelers, I wish to explain that my "Hawaiian riding dress" is the "American Lady's Mountain Dress," a half-fitting jacket, a skirt reaching to the ankles, and full Turkish trousers gathered into frills falling over the boots,—a thoroughly serviceable and feminine costume for mountaineering and other rough traveling, as in the Alps or any other part of the world. I. L. B. (Author's note to the second edition, November 27, 1879.) Once "

― Isabella Lucy Bird , A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

9 " No more hunters' tales told while the pine knots crack and blaze; no more thrilling narratives of adventures with Indians and bears; and never again shall I hear that strange talk of Nature and her doings which is the speech of those who live with her and her alone. Already the dismalness of a level land comes over me. "

― Isabella Lucy Bird , A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains