- Oh, Caledonia! Stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child!” – Robert Burns (1788)
- “There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest, it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing amidst the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain… or so says the legend.” – Fiona McIntosh, The Master of Whitestorm (1998)
- “At the heart of winter, I learned there is in me an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus, The Stranger (1942)
- “The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.” – Craig Childs, The Secret Knowledge of Water (2000)
- “Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate.” – Robert Burns, Tam o’ Shanter (1790)
- “How beautiful is Scotland, surrounded by its seas: yes, sister islands cluster around, sunlit and populous, like evangelists preaching with wide arms.” – D.H. Lawrence, Roads (1913)
- “Scotland, with its gentle benignity of tear and rainbow, has given us the first thought of our New Poet.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- “I belong to a nation which suffered greatly in the past, but I do not think we are a nation of victims. We have become a revitalized country. That is the story of Scotland.” – Nicola Sturgeon (Speech, 2021)
WANDERLIST: Ten great travel quotes about Scotland
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