Three Kinds of Attention
Illustration★★Some American tourists visited the Lake District with guidebooks and a guide. With a third of their attention they listened to what the guide said; with another third they read the guidebook; and with the remaining third they had an occasional squint at the scenery. After visiting the places which Wordsworth loved so much, one of them said to the guide, “I don’t see anything very wonderful in your Lake District.” But the guide said, “No, sir, but Wordsworth did.”—Leslie D. Weatherhead
The point
American tourists distracted by guidebooks and each other miss the natural beauty of the Lake District.
Audience
Adults
Tone
Convicting
To tell aloud
under a minute · 51 words