Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. - William James
What we glean from travellers' vivid descriptions has a special charm; whatever is far off and suggestive excites our imagination; such pleasures tempt us far more than anything we may daily experience in the narrow circle of sedentary life. - Alexander von Humboldt