TRAVEL QUOTES VI

quotations about travel

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


To travel is to possess the world.

E. BURTON HOLMES

American Review of Reviews, December 1907


Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs; they ... return home with travelled bodies, but untravelled minds.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making


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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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


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

MARK HERTSGAARD

Earth Odyssey


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

SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

attributed, The Quotable Traveler


Travel is like love, involving all its possible phases--its approaches, its games, its crystallisations, or its claps of thunder, even to the point of temporal disorientation or spatial displacement, from a change of place to the embrace of a new and totally different destination, as if in the bodily form of a woman met by chance, through whose union a masterpiece is accomplished.

JEAN CASSOU

attributed, The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World


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

PAUL THEROUX

introduction, The Best American Travel Writing


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


Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

CATO

attributed, Day's Collacon


I depart,
Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by
When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

LORD BYRON

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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

SEKOU CAMARA

"The Dan"


Travel not too fast, if you would learn.

PETER RAMUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


The future of luxury travel revolves around the fluidity of the digitally-connected consumer mindset, who is comfortable fluctuating between a wide spectrum of accommodations and experiences depending on the context.

GREG OATES

"Interview: Virtuoso Travel CEO on the Future of the New Luxury Traveler", Skift, May 16, 2017


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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To me, travel is a great way of bringing in fresh ideas. Since nature is my muse, I get bigger and better ideas when I see more of the world.

RANGA VOONA

"PhotoSparks", YourStory, May 6, 2017