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Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can. The most disturbing thought of all, I suppose, is that with so much still unrecorded many plants could disappear before they are even found.
Bill Bryson -
If I lost my luggage at the start of my trip, it wouldn’t be the end of the world. If I lost myself, it would be the beginning.
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The Head and the Heart - Rivers and Roads
I instantly fell in love with this song, and soon after this band. So many of my emotions are expressed in these lyrics. It almost makes me want to cry each time I hear it.
(the non-live version is great as well)
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10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't Tell You
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Vogue Photoshoot - Iran December 1969
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A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world
Jack Kerouac -
We find out where conditions are the worst - the places where others are not going - and that’s where we want to be.
Doctors Without Borders -
Let food be thy medicine
Hippocrates -
I learned a lesson early on that it is not enough to simply go, you must return with something in hand, a discovery or a story, or better yet, both!
Trevor Frost (National Geographics Young Explorer -
Little Boxes - Walk Off the Earth
and the people in the houses
all went to the university
where they were put in boxes
and they came out all the same
and there’s doctors and lawyers
and business executives
and they’re all made out of ticky tacky
and they all look just the same -
This was, I realized after a minute, the view from the top of the beanstalk
Bill Bryson -
Our model citizen is a sophisticate who before puberty understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato
Wendell Berry -
How To Be Alone
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Criteria of a Great City
- great, independent cafes
- amount and quality of bike lanes
- cheap, frequent, and efficient system of transportation
- awesome music scene
- weather: sunny and warm, always
- friendly, open-minded people
- lots of parks and green space
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