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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
Oct 2, 2025
The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
I spent a lot of time when I was president, trying to end wars, prevent killing, and promote understanding. What I have seen is that peace works better than conflict, and one of the best manifestations of it is in travel and tourism.
He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.
Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few.
I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.
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.
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Once a year go someplace you've never been.
Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
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 civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
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.
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
Take only memories, leave only footprints.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
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 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.'