To live and work in this kind of open country, with its hundred-mile views, is to lose the distinction between background and foreground. When I asked an older ranch hand to describe Wyoming’s openness, he said, ‘It’s all a bunch of nothing – wind and rattlesnakes – and so much of it you can’t tell […]
Places Quotes
The main thing about Lima even today, is that it was the dominant Spanish city in South America for three hundred years. It still has the overtones of an imperial metropolis, and it still utterly dominates Peru, so much so that it is sometimes ironically called ‘a city searching for a country.’
The land was not the arctic waste commonly envisioned, but a fertile paradise; Puget Sound, said one rhapsodic report, was ‘the Mediterranean of the Northwest.’
We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time.
Morocco is like a tree nourished by roots deep in the soil of Africa which breathes through foliage rustling to the winds of Europe. Yet Morocco’s existence is not only vertical. Horizontally it looks to the East, with which it is bound by ties of religion and culture. Even if we wished to sever those […]
Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoever […]
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
Amsterdam did not answer our expectations; it is a kind of paltry, rubbishy Venice. (1826)
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings In the ruins of her ice water mansion Old Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams, The island and bays are for sportsmen. And farther below Lake Ontario Takes in what Lake Erie can send her And the iron boats go as the mariners all know With the gales of […]
Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico.
