Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.
John SteinbeckThe camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.
John SteinbeckBut the Hebrew word, the word timshelโโThou mayestโโ that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if โThou mayestโโit is also true that โThou mayest not.
John Steinbeck