"One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers."

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Source : Robert Fortune (1863). “Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China”, p.11

Robert Fortune

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“When I say I'm a true welterweight I'm talking about every fighter that has ever moved into the welterweight division.”

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“People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.”
“A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print -Reptiles- you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, 'Madam, if that's the way you see it, so be it.'”
“You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment.”
“The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.”
“All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house.”
“In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.”
“Hunger is an escort to the deeper things of [God].”

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