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As they say in Corsica... Goodbye
Maatsuyker, the wild island south of Tasmania where it rained most days of the year and the chickens blew into the sea during storms.
In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
England ... the greatest and the most glorious and beautiful land on earth.
The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover, they have not lost their will to progress and develop. Mozambique is a country where the people never surrendered.
The most isolated inhabited island in the world is Tristan da Cunha, an active volcano located in the middle of the south Atlantic Ocean 1,242 miles (2,000 kilometers) from the nearest land. Tristan da Cunha is Portuguese for "Where the fuck are we?!
Oh, to be in England, now that England's gone. This World Service, this little bakelite gateway into the world of Sidney Box, Charters and Caldecott, Mazawattee tea, Kennedy's Latin Primer and dark, glistening streets. An
Out of all the places in the world, Jamaica is my favorite place.
Name a country, and I have probably been there.
Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.
The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.
Canada - they won't like me saying this, but it's really like it's a part of Michigan, that area.
One of the most magical places on Earth is a small island in the Caribbean called Mustique. With brilliant beaches, warm water, and lush vegetation, this tiny green swath of land is my idea of paradise.
Malta is a sod of a place.
I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.
There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and millions of little digital bursts transferring billions of dollars all over the globe in the blink of an eye.
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.
I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.
I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
We knew Down South. Everyone had one. Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico.
A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.
I want to go to the Maldives before they sink, but just because it's the most beautiful place on earth.
CpG islands, they're very high, density of guanine and
I would have given you all of that. You know I would. Screw the Bahamas, Id have given you the world.
South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.
I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor.
We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.
I'd have to say the Seychelles, because I adore being in tropical places. However, Paris and Milan are also special to me. Every city has something special that attracts me.
In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends
give me the country.
no ordinary island, and
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
Every time I go to Haiti after a season of busy work in Europe, I feel like I'm submerging into a certain state of mind, which is very productive.
I've got two places I like to be. Portugal is one.
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.
Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!
Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.
Id like to live in the Greek islands
It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.
I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.
founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from
Holland seems like a quaint toy.
I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
Water makes me feel at peace. In Corsica, I spend most of my time on the beaches or in the rivers. That's one reason I love it there so much. The water is so clean and fresh - you can drink it straight out of the rivers! This island is my secret garden.
The land of tears is so mysterious.
Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.
Ireland?" "Small wet place across the Irish Sea," Barry offered kindly. "Where they drink a lot?" Lisa said faintly. "And they never stop talking. That's the place.
Scotland's relationship with Malawi is perhaps unique - with almost every town or village in Scotland having some connection.
Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.
Our island. Our love. Our marriage.
China. The Kaiser had temporarily
I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.
Greenland is a wonderful country.
It was then I thought of Corsica, the place we had discovered together. I craved the wind, the sun and salt, the simplicity of the island.
It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.
I always thought I'd live in Paris, Rome, Madrid - at least for a while. It strikes me now that I didn't dream of Zanzibar or Papeete or Tashkent: even my fantasy was cautious, a good girl's fantasy, a blanched almond of a fantasy. Today, even that is enough to clench my fists and curl my toes. In
A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
[Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]
New Zealand is a place where you can get well.
Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know
because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful.
There is no country but the heart.
I feel that New Zealand is my second home.
I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.
Haiti is open for business!
I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.
Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before.
Bahrain is very dear to me.
A good friend of mine feels the same way about Italy and another adores a certain island in the Caribbean. For me it will always be Scotland - Galloway in particular. the musical lilt of a Lowland accent never fails to boost my spirits. I'm simply deliriously happy there.
A parcel of country boobies
When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, I was on vacation in the Cayman Islands.
[On Italy:] ... the country where kindness to strangers is a religion, you can't turn your head without seeing something beautiful, and you can't get a bad meal if you try.
The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.
South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.
Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.
It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
South America hell! If you went there the way you feel now it would be exactly the same. This is a good town.
England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots ...
Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities in the days of her glory, receives into its lap tribute of all the riches of the earth.
Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.
Timbuktu. The last pure place. Isolation being the mother of purity. All men are jealous of Timbuktu because Timbuktu is removed from men, it's the wholeness men have fractured, the sacred extreme they've traded away.
Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.
Cape Verde produces good people.
No one is an island. All these entities that drive economic development are interconnected in one sense or another.
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.
I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland.
Morocco is the greatest. I should be getting money from the Moroccans because I'm just telling everyone that it's a wonderful place to go.
Love, my territory of kisses and volcanoes.
Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman.
Africa?" "Africa?
Sicily has suffered 13 foreign dominations from which she has taken both the best and the worst. The sequence of different cultures has made Sicily a fascinating place, quite unlike any other.
Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.
The Philippines is where the love is.
Englishmen must have an island.
I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness.
These trifles will lead to serious mischief.
[Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent
In mala.]
An island of surety in a changing world.
Bagby Hot Springs.
"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.
You are my country, Desdemona ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.