quotations about travel
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
PUBLIUS SYRUS
Moral Sayings
Traveling is a pleasant and easy way of ridding oneself of superfluous gold.
WILLIAM BALDWIN
Ordinary Results
The soul of the journey is liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Table Talk
Travel is an every day occurrence; it's your commute to work, the weekend trip, the weddings, and the work trip that turns into a personal trip.
INDRE ROCKEFELLER
"The New Luggage Upgrade for Stylish Travel: Paravel", Forbes, May 15, 2017
Travel is the last fantasy the 2Oth Century left us, the delusion that going somewhere helps you reinvent yourself.
J. G. BALLARD
Millennium People
Travel is ... a means of conquering space and time.
JILLY TRAGANOU
Travel, Space, Architecture
If your goal is to broaden your world, travel is de rigueur.
LEWIS WALKER
"Travel dreams 2017", Dunwoody Crier, May 16, 2017
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
RAY BRADBURY
attributed, Emily the Strange: Piece of Mind
No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.
AUGUST STRINDBERG
Miss Julie
Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
JACK KEROUAC
On the Road
Modern travel is like fast food: short, sharp incursions that do not weave a spell. In our age, tourism has made the planet into a uniform spectacle, and it has made us perpetual strangers wandering through an imitation of an imitation of a place we once wanted to go.
LAWRENCE OSBORNE
The Naked Tourist
The traveler is active; he goes strenuously in search of people, of adventure, or experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN
attributed, Voyages of Discover
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 is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one's imagination.
ROSS MORLEY
attributed, Vagabonding
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.
HORACE
Epistles
I think it not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
OWEN FELTHAM
attributed, Day's Collacon
The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.
MARSDEN HARTLEY
Somehow a Past
Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader