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)
Technology may make it easier to reach beauty, but it does not simplify the process of possessing or appreciating it. 你一年旅行好几次，手机里装着几百本书，Wikipedia上可以看到无数的艺术作品，但...
2017-08-31 12:45
Technology may make it easier to reach beauty, but it does not simplify the process of possessing or appreciating it.引自第219页
A danger of travel is that we may see things at the wrong time, before we have had an opportunity to build up the necessary receptivity, so that new information is as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain. 这段话原来出自这里。
2017-08-16 23:25
A danger of travel is that we may see things at the wrong time, before we have had an opportunity to build up the necessary receptivity, so that new information is as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.引自 On Curiosity
A danger of travel is that we may see things at the wrong time, before we have had an opportunity to build up the necessary receptivity, so that new information is as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain. 这段话原来出自这里。
2017-08-16 23:25
A danger of travel is that we may see things at the wrong time, before we have had an opportunity to build up the necessary receptivity, so that new information is as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.引自 On Curiosity
Technology may make it easier to reach beauty, but it does not simplify the process of possessing or appreciating it. 你一年旅行好几次，手机里装着几百本书，Wikipedia上可以看到无数的艺术作品，但...
2017-08-31 12:45
Technology may make it easier to reach beauty, but it does not simplify the process of possessing or appreciating it.引自第219页
Technology may make it easier to reach beauty, but it does not simplify the process of possessing or appreciating it. 你一年旅行好几次，手机里装着几百本书，Wikipedia上可以看到无数的艺术作品，但...
2017-08-31 12:45
Technology may make it easier to reach beauty, but it does not simplify the process of possessing or appreciating it.引自第219页
A danger of travel is that we may see things at the wrong time, before we have had an opportunity to build up the necessary receptivity, so that new information is as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain. 这段话原来出自这里。
2017-08-16 23:25
A danger of travel is that we may see things at the wrong time, before we have had an opportunity to build up the necessary receptivity, so that new information is as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.引自 On Curiosity
0 有用 Donald 2009-05-23
Very Cambridge, and very poised.
0 有用 pala 2017-09-01
他们（旅行者）从不满足于故乡的所见所闻，尽管他们清楚他乡也并非尽善尽美.
0 有用 mike 2009-02-21
真是个多愁善感的家伙啊。不知是英语水平还是什么，觉得这书一般，这是看的他的第一本英文书，文笔也没我想象的好..
0 有用 Nova 2008-12-18
已经在看第二遍~ADB从不让人失望
0 有用 _blank_ 2011-02-15
两个版本都没有完整地读，跳来跳去的。还是喜欢英文版的，字句清爽。如遇知己。
0 有用 1111111 2019-10-19
还好
0 有用 Anasyrma 2018-09-16
羅斯金輪繪畫一股民科味
0 有用 Florrie___ 2018-08-07
太精彩。跟作者这样的人度过一生该有多幸福！
0 有用 pala 2017-09-01
他们（旅行者）从不满足于故乡的所见所闻，尽管他们清楚他乡也并非尽善尽美.
0 有用 馬鹿燒韭Alice 2016-01-20
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。