Nietzsche on Tourists.

From page 163 of *Basic Writings of Nietzsche in Seventy-Five Aphorisms, Nietzsche writes:

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Tourists.— They climb mountains like animals, stupid and sweating; one has forgotten to tell them that there are beautiful views on the way up. [1]


[1] I thought about how beautiful the world would look if there were no buildings as I passed by rows and rows of empty pastoral lands in England once about five or six years ago. There was such a vast expanse of field and green, that when you looked up from the bus window and looked far beyond them, you couldn't really see anything. I remember sleeping well inside the bus, having no inkling as to where I was or where we will be going next. All I actually remembered of that mindless slumber, was that when I woke up, the green expanse of land was just passing me by. And I was still there.