Quotes by Boorstin, Daniel J.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illus >>

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fa >>

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion >>

Quotations about Travel and Tourism

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you >>

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new >>

Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure. >>

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel --movement through space --provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions --perhaps one of the secret terrors --of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

Boorstin, Daniel J.