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Travel Quotes
"Every traveler has their unique observation of the place they have been."
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"When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don't sleep! Don't read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world!"
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"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."
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"He didn't really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself."
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"I walked around the sad honkytonks of Curtis Street; young kids in jeans and red shirts; peanut shells, movie marquees, shooting parlours. Beyond the glittering street was darkness, and beyond the darkness the West. I had to go."
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"I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it."
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"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."
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"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."
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"I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect."
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"Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell."
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"One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more."
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"Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart."
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"As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies."
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"Travelling shouldn't be just a tour, it should be a tale."
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"I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures."
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"Grace was breathing heavily when she crested a hill that was a lot steeper than she had originally though. She stood looking over the land even as a cold breeze blew past her. She wrapped her arms around herself. Though she had traveled extensively all over Europe, she continued to set her stories in Scotland. Her father used to laugh about it, telling her that there must be something in Scotland drawing her to the land. She used to roll her eyes at his teasing. Now she wondered if he hadn't been right."
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"Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist."
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"To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice."
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"During those days of whirling about the globe, I had an epiphany: travel was the only area of my life where I had no expectations. I anticipated nothing while fully engaging each moment. What bred adventure, surprise and deep experience was not knowing, surrendering to now and letting go of control."
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"The secret to being a good traveler is liking a place before you get there."
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"Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can."
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"Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?"
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"I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see."
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"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent."
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"Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries on Gorda. All told, that would take care of their traveling arrangements for the next year or so, pretty much."
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"Everywhere, I have travel to, I felt loved."
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"As the Spanish proverb says "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge."
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"When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where they take tourists who say that they don't want to go to tourist places. These places are, of course, full of tourists."
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"New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire."
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"For my part I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
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"That's the place to get to-nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere."
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"As a very young man, I thought of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen."
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"I don't travel to learn about the world. I travel for the joy of traveling."
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"The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager hostility, and seized every occasion to molest them by secret inroad, and often by open assault."
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"A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country."
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"A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge."
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"In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.'"
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