Paul Will
Paul Will
religious religion expanding
Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.
hiking long mountain
Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.
pride hockey nhl
Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.
attachment years cities
I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an attachment here 20-some odd years later is pretty special to me.
islands self world
My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.
travel moving risk
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..
live-your-life reaching destination
Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life
peace maturity drag
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
problem problem-solving worthwhile
There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.
second-chance giving fiction
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
falling-in-love children thinking
I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
rhinos gone pessimistic
You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.
travel adventure journey
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
compassion behavior civilized-behavior
The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.