G.K. Chesterton Quotes
It Is Inspiriting Without Doubt To Whizz In A Motor-car Round The Earth, To Feel Arabia As A Whirl Of Sand Or China As A Flash Of Rice-fields. But Arabia Is Not A Whirl Of Sand And China Is Not A Flash Of Rice-fields. They Are Ancient Civilizations With Strange Virtues Buried Like Treasures. If We Wish To Understand Them It Must Not Be As Tourists Or Inquirers, It Must Be With The Loyalty Of Children And The Great Patience Of Poets. To Conquer These Places Is To Lose Them. The Man Standing In His Own Kitchen-garden, With Fairyland Opening At The Gate, Is The Man With Large Ideas. His Mind Creates Distance; The Motor-car Stupidly Destroys It ...
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