"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ March 13, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-03-10

URL: https://youtu.be/g-Z98navFVE

Hello Again Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for March 13, 2016. 

It’s by Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish historical novelist and poet.  He lived from 1771 to 1832.

“One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.” 

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

“Depending on your personality and outlook on life this quote can either make you want to chuck it all and hit the road for parts unknown, or gaze fondly at your home sweet home and vow to never leave its loving embrace.  Most people are stuck in the routine of ‘paltry decorum’, as Scott puts it, but also yearn for that “one hour of life” full of ‘glorious action’ and ‘noble risks’.  Fortunately, the tourism industry offers wildlife safaris, adventure tourism, ecotourism, festivals and events, and many other exciting products which provide that missing adrenalin rush.” 

Now…here’s the list of all the sources quoted in March.  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!

March 1-31, 2016 (entries listed by date and source):
01 Anais Nin
02 Aldous Huxley
03 Margaret Mead
04 Mark Twain
05 Mason Cooley
06 Arnold Bennet
07 Confucius
08 Kenneth Grahame
09 Clive Jones
10 (Unknown)
11 Douglas Adams
12 Jack Kerouac
13 Sir Walter Scott
14 Jack London
15 (Roman Expression)
16 Walt Disney
17 George Bernard Shaw
18  William Bartram
19 Robert Jenkins
20 John B. Priestly
21 William Shakespeare
22 Thomas Haynes Bayly
23 Pubilius Syrus
24 Dr. Maya Angelou
25 Arthur Schopenhauer
26 Mario Batali
27 Pope John Paul II
28 Benjamin Franklin
29 Samuel Johnson
30 Reverend Purlie V. Judson
31 Antoine de Saint Exupery

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.