TRAVEL QUOTES VI

quotations about travel

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


All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own, and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

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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


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

MARK HERTSGAARD

Earth Odyssey


A wise traveller never despises his own country.

CARLO GOLDONI

attributed, Day's Collacon


To travel is to possess the world.

E. BURTON HOLMES

American Review of Reviews, December 1907


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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Travel can be fun, as long as you have the right attitude and plan the trip with realistic expectations.

LEWIS WALKER

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


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

SEKOU CAMARA

"The Dan"


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


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


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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Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else -- above all, a travel bureau -- arrange everything before-hand?

RICHARD ALDINGTON

Death of a Hero

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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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Our object in traveling should be, not to gratify curiosity, and seek mere temporary amusement, but to learn, and to venerate, to improve the understanding and the heart.

NIGEL GRESLEY

attributed, American Medical Association Bulletin, 1933


Travel is like death in that it requires separation and, indeed, mourning. And travel by sea, unlike the far more rapid air travel, gives time for mourning, separation, and loss as one sees space slowly open between ship and shore and watches the coastline recede and eventually disappear.

PHILIP H. PFATTEICHER

Liturgical Spirituality


Every traveler has a tale to tell.

DAVID C. SMITH & RICHARD L. TIERNEY

The Ring of Ikribu


The reason why there are so many narrow-minded people in the world is, because there is so little travelling in it.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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

PHIL COUSINEAU

The Art of Pilgrimage


The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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