TRAVEL QUOTES IV

quotations about travel

A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.

SAADI

attributed, Day's Collacon


I have been a stranger in a strange land.

BIBLE

Exodus 2:22

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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Letters from a Citizen of the World

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Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all to inform and educate all. Sallies forth from our cramped firesides into other homes, other hearts, are wonderfully wholesome and enlarging. Travel opens prospects on all sides, widens our horizon, liberates the mind from geographical and conventional limitations, from local prejudices and national, showing the globe in its differing climates, zones, and latitudes of intelligence.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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Of course, even foreign places grow familiar given enough time; even novelty grows old. Some would argue that this is what makes travel pointless. And in a sense, it's true--childhoods never last. But everyone deserves one.

WENDY DALE

Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals


Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

attributed, Disraeli

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To embargo travel is like burning books or imprisoning journalists.

LARS-ERIC LINDBLAD

New York Times, July 13, 1994


If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.

ALEX GARLAND

The Beach

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Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

As You Like It

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I love visiting new places but am not overly fond of the travel to get to them.

KIRBY LARSON

interview, Author Turf, March 6, 2014

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Travel is intensified living--maximum thrills per minute and one of the last great sources of legal adventure. Travel is freedom. It's recess, and we need it.

RICK STEVES

Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door


The good thing about travel is that it takes you to new and different places. The bad thing about travel is that it takes you to new and different places.

DIANE

attributed, Sleepless in America


Strong and content I travel the open road.

WALT WHITMAN

Song of the Open Road

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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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Every mile of travel is like the disinterment of a buried city.

ANONYMOUS

Appleton's Journal, January-June 1878


I don't keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don't travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.

ALEX GARLAND

The Beach

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It is but to be able to say that they have been to such a place, or have seen such a thing, that, more than any real taste for it, induces the majority of the world to incur the trouble and fatigue of travelling.

FREDERICK MARRYAT

A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions


Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.

HARVEY LLOYD

Cruise Travel, April 1985


All our journeys are rhapsodies on the theme of discovery. We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home, and soon find that a change of climate is easier than a change of heart. The bittersweet truth about travel is embedded in the word, which derives from the older word travail, itself rooted in the Latin tripalium, a medieval torture rack.

PHIL COUSINEAU

The Art of Pilgrimage


For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Travels with a donkey in the Cevenne

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