“We meet people who have crossed deserts, floated on icecaps and cut their way through jungles – and yet in whose souls we would search in vain for evidence of what they have witnessed.”  Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel Why do we travel?  Could we be as happy and fulfilled if we were…

“…that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” George Eliot, Middlemarch “In historical events great men – so called – are but labels serving to give a name to the event,…