The Tranquilo Traveler
The Tranquilo Traveler is a celebration of voluntourism, slow travel, and other interesting ways to see the world. Travel writer and award- winning Moon Handbooks author Joshua Berman created The Tranquilo Travel as a resource for world trippers and international volunteers, a window to the author’s travels in Nicaragua, Belize, and beyond, and an update of his books and articles.
Mark Twain
By Joshua | May 10th, 2005 | 
4 Comments » “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” —Mark Twain, 1857
4 Responses to “Mark Twain”
I think this quote sums up the reason behind why people are prejudice. We fear what we do not know or understand. By traveling we meet people who are diferent than us and we experience culturess taht we never experienced outside our own little world.
Here is a link to many more of Mark Twain’s quotes . . . enjoy
This quote is why I encourage all the youth I work with (in class, in girl scouts, in church) to get out there and volunteer abroad. At age 14, our daughter went on a trip to Cartago, Costa Rica through Girl Scouts and Cross Cultural Solutions. An amazing experience!
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Great quote! I will have this posted in my 7th gd. world geography classroom this fall.
Thanks
Eric S. H. Jenkins
Charles Town, WV