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Travel Quotes
"I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable."
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"Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation."
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"Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884."
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"Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation."
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"London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation."
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"Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where."
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"In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between."
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"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection."
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"Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else."
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"The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere."
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"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."
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"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."
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"But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses."
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"Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet."
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"One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are."
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"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."
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"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
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"Travel doesn't become adventure until you leave yourself behind."
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"There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us."
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"This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart's affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive and feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad."
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"I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves."
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"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."
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"My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return, it shall not be like other travellers, without being able to give one accurate idea of any thing. We will know where we have gone - we will recollect what we have seen. Lakes, mountains, and rivers shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor, when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarrelling about its relative situation. Let our first effusions be less insupportable than those of the generality of travellers."
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"Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations."
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"We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey."
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"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."
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"The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed."
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"The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible."
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