Nature contains no one constant form.
—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770Quotes
Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.
—Jonathan Swift, c. 1730Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
—Arnold Toynbee, 1948Let 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, 1961Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Hazel Rochman, 1995I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
—Gregory VII, c. 1085Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCDo not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCSpring 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