519 Quotations Found

One of the things travel sometimes teaches you is that you don’t have to travel anymore. There’s nothing wrong with coming home.

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Adventure is a path. Real adventure—self-determined, self-motivated, often risky—forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind—and perhaps realize that you yourself are … [ Read more ]

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

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Tramping is a way of approach, to nature, to your fellow man, to a nation, to a foreign nation, to beauty, to life itself.

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Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

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To travel alone, I learned, isn’t to rely on yourself. To travel alone is to force yourself to depend on others. It is to fall in love with mankind.

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Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

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When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

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When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one’s physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual.

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Travel is about experiencing a place, a country, a culture—and a bicycle, in my opinion, is the best vehicle for it. But without the element of discovery or reflection, a journey, even a bicycle journey, can devolve into getting from point A to point B. That’s not travel. It’s commuting in a foreign land.

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Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

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The initial mystery that attends any journey is: How did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

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What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place.

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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but, by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

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We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home, in towns and cities.

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Going nowhere… isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

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Travel is like love, 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.

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Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty.

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Isn’t infidelity part of the sales tax, part of the lure, of travel? It is, of course, and it’s nothing but the shadow side of the dissolution of self, the release from normal boundaries that flight induces. Indeed, it’s part of what moves us to take flights in the first place: to walk through that archway of lights and become a different person. A girl … [ Read more ]

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