One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

一个人独处时旅行更有意义,因为他思考得更多。

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What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.

我认为,当一种艺术形式变得模棱两可时,标准就会降低。你可以说任何东西都是爵士乐。所以我认为反思是什么让爵士乐如此特别是很重要的。

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

要明白朋友来来去去,但你应该把握住一些珍贵的朋友。你年纪越大,就越需要那些在你年轻时就认识你的人。

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

我喜欢动物。我喜欢自然史。旅行不是最重要的。旅行的部分是你必须做的为了去看动物。

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

当你旅行的时候,请记住,一个国家不是为了让你感到舒适而设计的。它的设计是为了让自己的人民感到舒适。

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

以好奇心为主要动力的生物更喜欢积累事实,而不是偶尔停下来反思这些事实。

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

当你重读一本经典著作时,你在书中看到的并不比以前多;你比以前看到了更多。