Mysterious Traveler

Famous quotes containing the words mysterious and/or traveler:

    The snail in his museum
    wears his mother all day,
    he hides his mysterious bottom
    as if it were rotten fruit.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    What though the traveler tell us of the ruins of Egypt, are we so sick or idle that we must sacrifice our America and today to some man’s ill-remembered and indolent story? Carnac and Luxor are but names, or if their skeletons remain, still more desert sand and at length a wave of the Mediterranean Sea are needed to wash away the filth that attaches to their grandeur. Carnac! Carnac! here is Carnac for me. I behold the columns of a larger
    and purer temple.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)