Travelling

“I write to you from the deck of the S.S. Singapore, lying in the harbor of Hong Kong, that glittering city set in a savage mountain amphitheatre, overshadowing a thronged harbor brimming with craft from half the East.”--Isabella Bird, The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither

“There’s a real purity in New Zealand that doesn’t exist in the states. It’s actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It’s a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.” – Elijah Wood

‘In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.’ – Margaret Mead

“The loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean.” --Mark Twain

‘In traditional Japanese Aesthetics, Wabi-Sabi is a world view centred on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The Aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is imperfect, impermanent and incomplete.’