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“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”
–Ruskin
"What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home" —The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
“Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically introduces viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will, that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves.
This is the lesson written into the stones of the desert and the ice fields of the poles. So grandly is it written there that we may come away from such places not crushed but inspired by what lies beyond us, privileged to be subject to such majestic necessities. The sense of awe may even shade into a desire to worship.”
—from The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
"Humans have been crossing deserts by camel for millennia, sailing seas for a thousand years, climbing mountains for a hundred—the sky is the last great terra incognita for adventurers.." #✈️
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Wind, Sand and Stars)
Mountains, ocean, skyscrapers...it's kind of easy to see why people come to Vancouver and fall in love and want to stay forever but then remember 'oh I'm a foreigner so technically I have to leave when my visa is up so I guess I'll just have to make the most of the few months I am fortunate enough to live here for...'