Patrick fermor sayings

Here are some quotes by Patrick Leigh Fermor:

1. "To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."

2. "Time, like the sea, unties all knots."

3. "The journey is the thing."

4. "Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world."

5. "The wine was fragrant, the women were beautiful and the men were hospitable. It was a time of peace and plenty."

6. "The measure of a civilization is the grace of its institutions."

7. "The past is not only a foreign country, it is a country of which we know nothing."

8. "The slow and silent rivers of the plain, the rapid and turbulent streams of the mountains, the wide estuaries, the lagoons, the lakes, the rapids, the shallows, the marshes, the rocks, the beaches, the cliffs, the sand dunes, the caves, the cliffs, the valleys, the hills, the mountains, the plains, the forests, the deserts, the steppes, the tundra, the ice, the snow, the rain, the wind, the sun, the moon, the stars, the planets, the galaxies, the universe."

9. "The journey is the thing."

10. "The journey is the thing."

Above is Patrick fermor sayings.