“Travel is like a good,
challenging book: it demands presentness—the ability to live completely in the
moment, absorbed in the words or vision of reality before you. And like serious
reading itself, travel has become an act of resistance against the distractions
of the electronic age, and against all the worries that weigh us down, thanks
to that age. A good book deserves to be finished, just as a haunting landscape
tempts further experience of it, and further research into it. Travel and
serious reading, because they demand sustained focus, stand athwart the
nonexistent attention spans that deface our current time on Earth.”— American
travel and foreign-affairs writer Robert D. Kaplan, “Being
There,” The Atlantic, November 2012
The image accompanying
this post, of Robert D. Kaplan speaking at the U.S. Naval War College, was taken
on June 17, 2014, by Rosalie Bolender.
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