Now, how many of you people haven't felt this way? And when the present is so exacting, who can annoy himself about the future? ” To hold a pack upon a pack-saddle against a gale out of the freezing north is no high industry, but it is one that serves to occupy and compose the mind. Alas, as we get up in life, and are more preoccupied with our affairs, even a holiday is a thing that must be worked for. The great affair is to move to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. “ For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. Quoting more from his book, along with the above well known lines, It was a 12-day, 200-kilometre long solo hiking journey through the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the Cévennes mountains in south-central France. This is quoted from his book, "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes", which is based on a journey he went on, in 1878. Nowadays, the first step would typically be planning where to go, followed by initiating the booking process, unless you're a hardcore wanderer at heart. Whatever the original context might have been, these wise words hold true in the context of travelling.Įvery journey, whether long or short, does begin with a single step, which is the first step that you take. Lao Tzu might have also meant to say that every great thing has a small beginning. Įven though scholars and historians still debate the text's true authorship and date of its composition, there is truth in the ancient wisdom.
He is known as the reputed author of the "Tao Te Ching", which is also referred to as"Laozi". Why not post a question or comment yourself? Just click the link below.Lao Tzu, also known as Laozi or Lao-Tze, literally meaning "Old Master", was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. No active discussions on Stevenson found. Recent Forum Posts on Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Sidney Colvin, it is with pride that I sign myself affectionately yours,įan of this book? Help us introduce it to others by writing a better introduction for it. Of what shallĪ man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? And so, my dear Yet though the letter is directed to all, we have an oldĪnd kindly custom of addressing it on the outside to one. The public is but a generous patron who defrays Messages, assurances of love, and expressions of gratitude, dropped for They alone take his meaning they find private We are alone, we are only nearer to the absent.Įvery book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of They keep us worthy of ourselves and when Wilderness of this world-all, too, travellers with a donkey: and theīest that we find in our travels is an honest friend. But we are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to The journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable andįortunate for me.
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