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| The Great Polynesian Triangle of the Pacific, centered on Tahiti, and ranging from Easter Island in the east to New Zealand in the west, and as far north as Hawaii ... |
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| The Polynesians’ myths say they traveled to escape overpopulation, land disputes, and warfare – the usual island plagues. But anyone mesmerized by an empty horizon knows they must also have been restless and curious, sailing beyond their reef for the same reason boys who grow up hearing train whistles in prairie towns head for Chicago. Thurston Clarke |
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One
doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore
for a very long time.
Andre Gide |
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What
is traveling? Changing your place? By no means. |
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Traveling
is changing
your opinions and your prejudices. Anatole France |
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The
schooner turned upon her heel, the anchor plunged. It was a small sound,
a great event; my soul went down these moorings whence no windlass may
extract nor any diver fish it up; and I, and some part of my ship’s company,
were from that hour the bond slaves of the isles …
Robert Louis Stevenson |
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The
real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust |
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an island whose horizon is empty in every direction resembles a self-contained
universe, |
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No
life can be barren which hears the whisper of the wind in the branches, |
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We
are born with a destiny. The destiny is bliss, absolute, sensuous,
blissful, carnal
knowledge of the universe, fleshly union with all things. Nina Fitzpatrick |
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You
cannot avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeing it. Charlotte
Joko Beck
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