TRAVEL QUOTES VI

quotations about travel

Travel can be fun, as long as you have the right attitude and plan the trip with realistic expectations.

LEWIS WALKER

"Travel dreams 2017", Dunwoody Crier, May 16, 2017


Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

PAUL THEROUX

introduction, The Best American Travel Writing


A wise traveller never despises his own country.

CARLO GOLDONI

attributed, Day's Collacon


Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

ITALO CALVINO

Invisible Cities

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A wise man travels to discover himself.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Fireside Travels

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Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else -- above all, a travel bureau -- arrange everything before-hand?

RICHARD ALDINGTON

Death of a Hero

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Our object in traveling should be, not to gratify curiosity, and seek mere temporary amusement, but to learn, and to venerate, to improve the understanding and the heart.

NIGEL GRESLEY

attributed, American Medical Association Bulletin, 1933


Travel is like a drug that permeates the mind with an indefinite but unusual tinge, stimulating and releasing, imparting a greater significance than they possess to the things that interest and amuse it.

OSBERT SITWELL

Discursions on Travel, Art, and Life


Soulful travel is the art of finding beauty even in ruins.

PHIL COUSINEAU

The Art of Pilgrimage


I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

attributed, The Quotable Traveler


To travel is to possess the world.

E. BURTON HOLMES

American Review of Reviews, December 1907


Travel is like knowledge. The more you see the more you know you haven't seen.

MARK HERTSGAARD

Earth Odyssey


Travel is like death in that it requires separation and, indeed, mourning. And travel by sea, unlike the far more rapid air travel, gives time for mourning, separation, and loss as one sees space slowly open between ship and shore and watches the coastline recede and eventually disappear.

PHILIP H. PFATTEICHER

Liturgical Spirituality


Travel is the soul of civilization.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

attributed, The Art of Pilgrimage

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There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animated figures.

CHARLES DARWIN

The Voyage of the Beagle

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Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.

ROLF POTTS

Vagabonding


Any youth who doesn't travel is like a blind person.

SEKOU CAMARA

"The Dan"


Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.

TIM LEBBON

Fallen

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Travel is one of the greatest facilitators of creation, if only because it forces us to observe other ways of creating things.

BLAKE SNOW

"Off The Grid: Why Do We Travel?", Paste Magazine, May 16, 2017