Home » Quote » Karen Blixen » „One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.“ „One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.“ — Karen Blixen Tags:Travel Related quotes „Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.“ — John Ruskin „Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.“ — John Muir „If one does not wish to be dissatisfied with one’s lot at home, one ought to go where the flies and the stinks are, which means the Middle East. This is also a good way of reconciling oneself to one’s laws and police force and the probity of one’s magistrates. The really great British travellers, like Charles M. Doughty for instance, to say nothing of ‘Eothen’ Kinglake, always went East, but not too far East. When you get to Southeast Asia you find no dirt or flies but the suspicion that you are in a tropical paradise, and then you go to pieces. It is essential, when travelling, to feel that you belong to a superior civilization, and the lands of the Arabs lavishly grant opportunities to nourish this conviction….“ — Anthony Burgess
