TRAVEL QUOTES VI

quotations about travel

On journeys it has happened many times before that something I especially desire withholds itself. Travel is like knowledge: much remains unknown and imperfectly seen, a situation not always remedied by checking museum hours, which are, in any case, changeable. And, too, the direct gaze, for all its virtues, can obscure: some things can simply not be seen head-on in the sun's glare.

EMILY HIESTAND

The Very Rich Hours


For many of us, change is the biggest motivation for travel. We have a need for novel scenery, routine, weather or even people.

BLAKE SNOW

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


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

PHIL COUSINEAU

The Art of Pilgrimage


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

PAUL THEROUX

introduction, The Best American Travel Writing


If your goal is to broaden your world, travel is de rigueur.

LEWIS WALKER

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


Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education, in the elder, a part of experience.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Travel", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Tags: Francis Bacon


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

Tags: Charles Darwin


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

SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

attributed, The Quotable Traveler


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


To travel is to possess the world.

E. BURTON HOLMES

American Review of Reviews, December 1907


Travel is the soul of civilization.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

attributed, The Art of Pilgrimage

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

SEKOU CAMARA

"The Dan"


Better sit still where born, I say,
Wed one sweet woman and love her well,
Love and be loved in the old East way,
Drink sweet waters, and dream in a spell,
Than to wander in search of the Blessed Isles,
And to sail the thousands of watery miles
In search of love, and find you at last
On the edge of the world, and a curs'd outcast.

JOAQUIN MILLER

Pace Implora


He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

FERNANDO CORTEZ

attributed, Conquest of Mexico


The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

CHINUA ACHEBE

Arrow of God

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No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

AUGUST STRINDBERG

Miss Julie

Tags: August Strindberg


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


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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Travelling is an excellent means of living in idleness; we acquire by it a kind of knowledge which is not always beneficial, and estrange ourselves from our daily avocations to partake liberally of the vices and pleasures of other people.

T. SMITH

attributed, Day's Collacon


He didn't really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

JULIAN BARNES

Flaubert's Parrot

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