Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists' stage.

The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera - and himself.

An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.