TRAVEL QUOTES VI

quotations about travel


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What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

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

SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

attributed, The Quotable Traveler


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

PHIL COUSINEAU

The Art of Pilgrimage


He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

FERNANDO CORTEZ

attributed, Conquest of Mexico


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


A man who has travelled and seen the world, brings all countries to his fireside.

GEORGE REDFORD

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


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

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When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries, where he hath travelled, altogether behind him; but maintain a correspondence by letters, with those of his acquaintance, which are of most worth. And let his travel appear rather in his discourse, than his apparel or gesture; and in his discourse, let him be rather advised in his answers, than forward to tell stories; and let it appear that he doth not change his country manners, for those of foreign parts; but only prick in some flowers, of that he hath learned abroad, into the customs of his own country.

FRANCIS BACON

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

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

AUGUST STRINDBERG

Miss Julie

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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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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


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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Though they carry nothing forth with them, yet in all their journey they lack nothing. For wheresoever they come, they be at home.

SIR THOMAS MORE

"Of Their Journeying or Travelling Abroad", Utopia

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

SEKOU CAMARA

"The Dan"


Foreign travel is like a tarantula bite--once beginning to dance, one must dance on. The exertion may be more painful than pleasurable, still we keep it up. The lookers-on--the quiet, phlegmatic, or selfish stayers at home--think us very foolish; perhaps we ourselves have our doubts whether we are not rather foolish too. Nevertheless we go dancing on, and dance until we die.

DINAH CRAIK

We Four in Normandy

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Traveling thoughtfully means traveling closer to the core ... like living closer to the core. It means traveling with open eyes, taking in the culture, living like the locals do, as much as a traveler can. Thoughtful travel is not about whizzing through a place or series of places at 90 mph--the old if it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium routine. No, thoughtful travel is slowing down and experiencing the place you are in its fullest.

JANET LUHRS

The Simple Living Guide


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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