How to Travel Quotes

“A degree of anxiety is fundamental to our nature for well-founded reasons:
•   Because we are intensely vulnerable physical beings, a complicated network of fragile organs deeply affected by the vagaries of our outer and inner worlds.
•   Because we can imagine so much more than we can ever have and live in mobile-driven, mediatised societies where envy and restlessness are constants.
•   Because we are the descendants of the great worriers of the species (the others having been trampled and torn apart by wild animals) and because we still carry in our bones – into the calm of the jasmine-scented holiday resort – the terrors of the savannah.
•   Because we rely for our self-esteem and sense of comfort on the love of people we cannot control and whose needs and hopes will never align seamlessly with our own”
― Alain de Botton, How to Travel

“Lunch arrives; we spear a tiny roasted potato or a small piece of fish and prise the foil top off a squat carton of orange juice as we pass over a region where, four miles below on the ground, we would need to travel in an armed convoy. Later we pad along the aisle to explore the lavatory, wearing the shapeless socks the airline has provided.”
― The School of Life, How to Travel