“To arrive in the Rocky Mountains by plane would be to see them in one kind of context,as pretty scenery. But to arrive after days of hard travel across the prairies would be to see them in another way, as a goal, a promised land.”
Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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