Six Months in the Sandwich Islands Quotes

“There is also a dog, but he does not understand English,”
― Isabella L. Bird, The Hawaiian Archipelago

“people live more happily than any that I have seen elsewhere.  It is very cheerful to live among people whose faces are not soured by the east wind, or wrinkled by the worrying effort to “keep up appearances,” which deceive nobody;”
― Isabella L. Bird, The Hawaiian Archipelago

“It is a strange life up here on the mountain side, but I like it, and never yearn after civilization. ”
― Isabella L. Bird, The Hawaiian Archipelago

“The scarcely audible whisper of soft airs through the trees morning and evening, rain drops falling gently, and the murmur of drowsy surges far below, alone break the stillness. ”
― Isabella L. Bird, The Hawaiian Archipelago

“A little longer, and I too should say, like all who have made their homes here under the deep banana shade,--            “We will return no more,     . . . . our island home     Is far beyond the wave, we will no longer roam.”
― Isabella L. Bird, The Hawaiian Archipelago