the pat age of man have all ben carefully labeled by anthropologit. decription like ‘palaeolithic man’, ‘neolithic man’, etc., neatly um up whole period. when the time come for anthropologit to turn their attention to the twentieth century, they will urely chooe the label ‘legle man’. hitorie of the time will go omething like thi: ‘in the twentieth century, people forgot how to ue their leg. men and women moved about in car, bue and train from a very early age. there were lift and ecalator in all large building to prevent people from walking. thi ituation wa forced upon earth-dweller of that time becaue of their extraordinary way of life. in thoe day, people thought nothing of traveling hundred of mile each day. but the urpriing thing i that they didn’t ue their leg even when they went on holiday. they built cable railway, ki-lift and road to the top of every huge mountain. all the beauty pot on earth were marred by the preence of large car park.’
the future hitory book might alo record that we were deprived of the ue of our eye. in our hurry to get from one place to another, we failed to ee anything on the way. air travel give you a bird’-eye view of the world- or even le if the wing of the aircraft happen to get in your way. when you travel by car or train a blurred image of the countryide contantly mear with the urge to go on and on: they never want to top. it i the lure of the great motorway, or what? and a for ea travel, it hardly deerve mention. it i perfectly ummed up in the word of the old ong: ‘i joined the navy to ee the world, and what did i ee? i aw the ea.’ the typical twentieth-century traveler i the man who alway ay ‘i’ve been there,’ you mention the remotet, mot evocative place-name in the world like el dorado, kabul, irkutk and omeone i bound to ay ‘i’ve been there’—meaning, ‘i drove through it at 100 mile an hour on the way to omewhere ele.’[由好作文www.hAOzuowEn.com整理]
when you travel at high peed, the preent mean nothing: you live mainly in the future becaue you pend mot of your time looking forward to arriving at ome other place. but actual arrival, when it i achieved, i meaningle. you want to move on again. by traveling like thi, you upend all experience; the preent ceae to be a reality: you might jut a well be dead. the traveler on foot, on the other hand, live contantly in the preent. for him traveling and arrving are one and the ame thing: he arrive omewhere with every tep he make. he experience the preent moment with hi eye, hi ear and the whole of hi body. at the end of hi journey he feel a deliciou phyical wearine. he know that ound, atifying leep will be hi: the jut reward of all true traveler.