15 Places I Would Love To Visit Before I Die (in no particular order)

Give me but one hour of Scotland
Let me see it ere I die

William Edmonstoune Aytoun, poet

15 Places I Would Love To Visit Before I Die (in no particular order)

…karstic landscapes and limestone uplands cut into impressive ‘tsingy’ peaks and a ‘forest’ of limestone needles, the spectacular canyon of the Manambolo river, rolling hills and high peaks…

UNESCO description of Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve, Madagascar

15 Places I Would Love To Visit Before I Die (in no particular order)

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuation of civilisation.

George Orwell

15 Places I Would Love To Visit Before I Die (in no particular order)

Man fears time, yet time fears the pyramids.

Arab Proverb

15 Places I Would Love To Visit Before I Die (in no particular order)

New Zealand is not a large country but a small village.

Peter Jackson

15 Places I Would Love To Visit Before I Die (in no particular order)

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

James Michener, author

15 Places I Would Love To Visit Before I Die (in no particular order)

They seemed to be triumphing over us, asking: ‘Guess how this engineering work was done! Guess how we moved these gigantic figures down the steep walls of the volcano and carried them over the hills to any place on the island we liked!’

Thor Heyerdahl, adventurer and writer, on the Moai statues

15 Places I Would Love To Visit Before I Die (in no particular order)

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

William Shakespeare (abridged)

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