Pico Iyer — The Urgency of Slowing Down
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Travel Writing - The Rediscovery of the Inner World
As a little boy, as you said, i grew up travelling a lot. And then when i was loose upon the world in the twenties, i quickly, literally tried to map the world and to see as many places as possible. I always remembered that i felt i was almost a part of the first generation ever to be able to wake up one morning and to be in tibet or bolivia or yemen the next day. My grandparents couldn't have imagined thatbut, ah, this is an opportunity ido want to squander. Somnet i bavle to lav it's one of the things that's worth pausing every once in a while and taking in.
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