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At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.

John W. Gardner

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John W. Gardner
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: October 8
Died: 2002
Died: February 16
Author
Politician
LA
California
John William Gardner
John Gardner
Home
Surely
Heightens
Many
Measure
Attentiveness
Children
Travel
Recapture
Every
Capacity
Exhilaration
Awareness
Regain
Source
Apathy
Experience
Sources
Lost
Shakes
Unspoiled

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