The biggest misfortune in human history is the invention of… - Wilfred Thesiger

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The biggest misfortune in human history is the invention of the combustion engine. Cars and airplanes diminish the world, rob it of all its diversity. Young men who meet me want to know how they could do what I've done. But all they can be is tourists now.

Wilfred Thesiger

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Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger KBE, DSO, FRAS, FRSL, FRGS (3 June 1910 – 24 August 2003), also called Mubarak bin London (Arabic for "the blessed one of London") was an English explorer and travel writer.

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Alternative Names: Sir Wilfred Thesiger • Wilfred Patrick Thesiger • Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger • Wilfred, Sir Thesiger • Mubarak Bin London • Wilfred Patrick, Sir Thesiger • Wilfred Thesinger

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To me it is always the people rather than the places that matter.

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I craved for the past, resented the present, and dreaded the future.

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