Quote by George Eliot

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans --which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by

Summary

This quote suggests that our obsession with constant movement and exploration is cultivated through education and reading. It comments on society's tendency to yearn for foreign and exotic lands, as it draws comparisons between vagrancy and the allure of tropical environments. The quote implies that our imagination is fueled by literature and that we long to expand our horizons beyond familiar surroundings, embracing the unfamiliar and unknown.

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By George Eliot

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