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There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.
Oct 2, 2025
Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.
Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged.
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
Once a year go someplace you've never been.
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.
While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
Take only memories, leave only footprints.
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.