Sunday, April 16, 2006

on habit

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to. If only we could apply a travelling mindset to our own locales, we might find these places becoming no less interesting than the high mountain passes and butterfly-filled jungles of South America...Xavier de Maistre was gently nudging us to try, before taking off for distant hemispheres, to notice what we have already seen.'
- alain de botton

2 Comments:

At 1:38 pm, Blogger pine-cones said...

Every time I see his name, EVERY TIME, it says Alain de Bottom.

E v e r y t i m e

 
At 11:05 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Very pretty site! Keep working. thnx!
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