“There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.” HumansStillsSoulHelpingProblemCenturyTravelDiscoveryAncientCivilizedTravelerHuman SoulFlourishingCivilized Society Author:Walter Lippmann
“How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.” TryingEndsHomeTroubleCenturyTravelManageIslandsDecentPlatesColumbusCaribbeanSpaghetti Author:Calvin Trillin
“Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far down in the all but fathomless Atlantic; never before penetrated … save when some foundering vessel has plunged with her hapless company to the eternal silence and darkness of the abyss? Does it seem … but a miracle … that the thoughts of living men … should burn over the cold, green bones of men and women, whose hearts, once as warm as ours, burst as the eternal gulfs closed and roared over them centuries ago?” MenShouldHeartDoeTwoSeemsLinesSilenceCompanyDarknessCenturyColdThousandTravelOceanEternalMen And WomenMiracleGreenIncrediblesIntelligenceWarmBonesMilesAbyssVesselSlenderShipwreckThousand MilesCopperAtlantic Ocean Author:Edward Everett