#freya stark

[smsomah]

Hadhramaut, Yemen, 1935. From the book Freya Stark in Southern Arabia

[julesofnature]

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.   ~Freya Stark

[dk-thrive]

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

— Freya Stark, Perseus in the Wind: A Life of Travel (John Murray, 1948)

[ma-pi-ma]

Non ci può essere felicità se le cose in cui crediamo sono diverse dalle cose che facciamo.

Freya Stark

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I had to write a decalogue for journeys, eight out of the ten virtues should be moral, and I should put first of all a temper as serene at the end as at the beginning of the day. Then would come the capacity to accept values and to judge by standards other than our own. The rapid judgement of character; and a love of nature which must include human nature also. The power to dissociate oneself from one’s own bodily sensations. A knowledge of the local history and language. A leisurely and uncensorious mind. A tolerable constitution and the capacity to eat and sleep at any moment. And lastly, and especially here, a ready quickness in repartee.

- Freya Stark, A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen    

[harrypotterhousequotes]

RAVENCLAW: "The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them." –Freya Stark (The Lycian Shore)

[travelsandwandering]

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.

Freya Stark

[fallensapphires]

Holidays: Christmas (Christmas Village)

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.