"I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, [but] [h]e who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things. In Thebes, in Palmyra, his will and mind have become old and dilapidated as they. He carries ruins to ruins." —Ralph Waldo Emerson