People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.
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There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world.
It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
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