Destination Quote by Jonathan Raban

“Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.”

Jonathan Raban

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The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

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