Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why we should go and how we can become more fulfilled by doing so. In The Art of...
Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why we should go and how we can become more fulfilled by doing so. In The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton, author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, explores what the point of travel might be and modestly suggets how we can learn to be a little happier in our travels.
There were ox-like landscapes: innocent and 'not at all dangerous', pliable to the human will. Burke had spent his youth in one, at a Quaker boarding school in the village of Ballitore in County Kildare, thirty miles south-west of Dublin, a landscape of farms, orchards, hedges, rivers and gardens. Then there were bull-like landscapes. Burke enumerated their features: vast, empty, often dark and apparently infinite, because of the uniformity and succession of elements. The Sinai was among them. (查看原文)
It was for Van Gogh the mark of every great painter to allow us to see certain aspects of the world more clearly. if Velazquez was his guide to grey and the coarse faces of large cooks, then Monet was his guide to sunsets, Rembrandt to morning light and Vermeer to the adolescent girls of Arles ('A perfect Vermeer,' he explained to his brother after spotting one example near the arena). The sky over the Rhone after a heavy rain shower reminded him of Hokusai, the wheat of Millet and the young women in Saintes-Maries de la Mer of Cimabue and Giotto. (查看原文)
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0 有用 Nova 2008-12-18 11:45:18
已经在看第二遍~ADB从不让人失望
0 有用 AK 2021-07-13 22:06:14
You can never get enough of Alain Botton.
0 有用 Summer 2010-08-18 18:48:14
比中文翻译的有趣，中文有几章会感到很无趣，这个就还好，不过文字有些晦涩，deserve intensive reading though.
0 有用 馬鹿燒韭Alice 2016-01-20 13:59:04
Alain de Botton不愧是“英国的董桥”（褒），精于遣词造句，就是缺少点新意。最近碰巧在画画，阅读的过程中还是很有共鸣的，特别是art那章。
0 有用 庚子点点 2021-11-18 10:44:54
无法奢侈的享受旅行的人的最佳选择，人最重要的是应该有一颗发现和感受美的心，去看看身边的景物，珍惜在世上的每一天。