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Nature contains no one constant form.

—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770

Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.

—Simone Weil, 1943

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.

—Jonathan Swift, c. 1730

Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

—Arnold Toynbee, 1948

Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.

—Frantz Fanon, 1961

Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?

—Victoria Wolff, 1943

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

—Hazel Rochman, 1995

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

—Gregory VII, c. 1085

Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.

—Dragging Canoe, 1775

When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.

—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC

Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.

—Romalyn Ante, 2020

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong.

—Rachel Carson, 1962