Travel, inspired by

Travel, Inspirations 11/7
"Do not require a description of the countries towards which
you sail. The description does not describe them to you,
and tomorrow you arrive there,
and know them by inhabiting them."

Emerson, "The Over-Soul"

"Marco Polo imagined answering (or Kublai Khan imagined his answer) that the more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there; and he retraced the stages of his journeys, and he came to know the port from which he had set sail, and the familiar places of his youth, and the surroundings of home, and a little square in Venice where he had gamboled as a child..."

Calvino, Invisible Cities

"...after the forgetfulness of his own divinity,
man will remember again that heaven is always in touch with his world,
which can never be abandoned for good to the hounding wolves
of the modern era,
scenting human blood and howling to the skies."

Tagore, "Nationalism"

"Some have stopped reading altogether.
They have abandoned the past...
Such people have learned to live
in a world without memory."

Lightman, Einstein's Dreams

"Small wayside stations have always fascinated me. Manned sometimes by just one
or two men, and often situated in the middle of a damp sub-tropical forest, or clinging to the mountainside on the way to Shimla or Darjeeling,
these little stations are, for me, outposts of romance, lonely symbols of the spirit
that led a certain kind of pioneer to lay tracks into the remote corners of the earth."

Ruskin Bond