02. The Art of Travel_Alain de Botton

Humboldt could create his own categories of value without either following or deliberately rebelling against the hierarchies of others. He was free to think that everything, or perhaps nothing, might be interesting.

Nature’s ‘loveliness’ might in turn, according to Wordsworth, encourage us to locate the good in ourselves.

The pleasure we derive from a journey may be dependent more on the mindset we travel with than on the destination we travel to.

They had fallen into the habit of considering their universe to be boring and their universe had duly fallen into line with their expectations.