Ruskin and Slow Travel
May 20, 2009
As a quick followup to my previous entry on The Myth of Travel, a quote from John Ruskin which I picked from the last chapter of Alain de Botton’s excellent The Art of Travel:
No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.
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- The travelers’ dream of the Big House
- In praise of walking
- Ruskin and Slow Travel
- Have we stopped caring?
- Zeal and the useless job
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