"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ January 27, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-01-24

URL: https://youtu.be/-TTYmj1xgms

Hello Again Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for January 27, 2016. 

It’s from Henry David Thoreau, an American author, poet, philosopher, and naturalist, who lived from 1817 to 1862.

“Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.”

So what are your thoughts on today’s quote? Here’s mine:

“Thoreau traveled in some northern states and into Canada, but he was undoubtedly a homebody, as attested by his two self-imposed years at Walden.  I agree travel should enable you to be happier and more productive at home, but it saddens me to hear such a learned person say that’s its only value.  Becoming more aware of the world and its many natural and cultural wonders is value enough for me to want to visit many new places.  And, I think to really know yourself and your home, you must also become acquainted with other people and places. Travel replaces ignorance with perspective.”

Now…here’s the list of all the sources quoted in January.  I hope you’ll stop by each day to enjoy all the interesting and insightful things they have to say.  And leave a comment.  I’d like to hear your thoughts too.  Thanks, and see you tomorrow!

January 1-31, 2016 (entries listed by date and source):
01 Seneca the Younger 
02 Chinese Proverb
03 Democritus
04 Agnes Repplier
05 Paul Theroux
06 Ralph Waldo Emerson
07 Mark Twain
08 Zhuang Zhou
09 Albert Einstein
10 William Shakespeare
11 Ban Ki-moon
12 Turkish Proverb
13 Gertrude Stein
14 (Advertisement)
15 Carl Sandburg
16 Stan McGahey
17 Buddha
18 Michael Palin
19 Shunryu Suzuki
20 Ernest Hemingway
21 Kabir
22 Freya Stark
23 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
24 Nils Kjaer
25 Ed Buryn
26 (Unknown)
27 Henry David Thoreau
28 Jan Myrdal
29 Louis L’Amour
30 William Hazlitt
31 Roy Goodman

Presented by Dr. Stan McGahey.  Want to learn how the tourism industry works? View my free series of short, narrated PPTs on a variety of important topics, entitled “Demystifying Tourism” on YouTube.