TRAVEL QUOTES VII

quotations about travel

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

ITALO CALVINO

Invisible Cities

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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


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

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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

PHIL COUSINEAU

The Art of Pilgrimage


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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He didn't really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

JULIAN BARNES

Flaubert's Parrot

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Travel is the last fantasy the 2Oth Century left us, the delusion that going somewhere helps you reinvent yourself.

J. G. BALLARD

Millennium People

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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 is ... a means of conquering space and time.

JILLY TRAGANOU

Travel, Space, Architecture


Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Yes, to the very end.
Will the day's journey take the whole long day?
From morn to night, my friend.

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI

Up-Hill


He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

FERNANDO CORTEZ

attributed, Conquest of Mexico


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


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


Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

CATO

attributed, Day's Collacon


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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In travelling by land, there is a continuity of scene, and a connected succession of persons and incidents, that carry on the story of life, and lessen the effect of absence and separation.

WASHINGTON IRVING

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon

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A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

EDWARD ABBEY

Desert Solitaire

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

AUGUST STRINDBERG

Miss Julie

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The soul of the journey is liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Table Talk

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