Museums and Historic Houses
Several historic sites work to preserve and display artifacts from Pearl's profoundly multicultural life:
- The Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia
- Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- The Zhenjiang Pearl S. Buck Research Association in Zhenjiang, China
- Pearl S. Buck House in Nanjing, China
- The Pearl S. Buck Summer Villa, on Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi Province, China
- The Pearl S. Buck Memorial Hall, Bucheon City, South Korea
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“In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
—Henry James (1843–1816)
“Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters.... We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
“The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces—in nature, in society, in man himself.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)
“Pray be always in motion. Early in the morning go and see things; and the rest of the day go and see people. If you stay but a week at a place, and that an insignificant one, see, however, all that is to be seen there; know as many people, and get into as many houses as ever you can.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)