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“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.”

Humans Stills Soul Helping Problem Century Travel Discovery Ancient Civilized Traveler Human Soul Flourishing Civilized 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.”

Trying Ends Home Trouble Century Travel Manage Islands Decent Plates Columbus Caribbean Spaghetti

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?”

“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”

Men Order Fighting Nature Realizing Century Protect Travel Ocean

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.”

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Book:The Unfinished Country

Source: The Unfinished Country

“Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.”

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Author:Alan Dean Foster

“At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.”

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Author:Gerard Arpey

“Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.”

People Seeing Century Travel Disappear Horizon Funny Travel Disappearance

Book:Keeping a Rendezvous

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous

“Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.”

Talking Journey Century Travel

Author:Rene Descartes

“A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.”

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Book:Enemies of Promise

Source: Enemies of Promise