- I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth, then I ask myself the same question. Harun Yahya
- “I’m heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o’-lantern, will get therewithout help and nosy proclivities.” ― John Ashbery
- Part 1. Let’s not travel to tick things off lists, or collect half-hearted semi-treasures to be placed in dusty drawers in empty rooms. Victoria Erickson
- Who lives sees, but who travels sees more. Ibn Battuta
- “In the boundaryless forests, there’re dancers of nude.Yet in the confines of pasture, there’s promise of food.On which is your side?Ô, but tarry and bide,ere you decide,in both do confide.” ― Roman Payne
- “To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
- Wanting to travel reflects a positive attitude. You want to see, to grow in experience, and presumably to become more whole as a human being. Ed Buryn
- If you really want to learn about a country, work there. Charles Kuralt
- “Your traditional EDUCATION is not going to CHANGE your life but the life you are experiencing that can change you. Choose a POSITIVE life STYLE with positive ATTITUDE which could bring you a life with HAPPINESS and WISDOM” ― Rashedur Ryan Rahman
- Part 1. Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs. Charles Caleb Colton
- Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. Ray Bradbury
- “It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.” ― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
- When will you begin that long journey into yourself? Rumi
- He who would travel happily must travel light. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Once a year go somewhere you have never been before. Dalai Lama
- To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it’s an end in itself. Marty Rubin
- The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life; the way to find the essence of every place, every day: in the markets, small chapels, out-of-the-way parks, craft shops. Phil Cousineau
- “Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” ― Roman Payne
- My city and country, so far as I am Antoninus, is Rome; but so far as I am a man, it is the world. Marcus Aurelius
- Curiosity about the extraordinary in the ordinary moves the heart of the traveler intent on seeing behind the veil of tourism. Phil Cousineau
- I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train. Oscar Wilde
- “Travel is the dream of travelers.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- The farther I travel, the closer I am to myself. Andrew McCarthy
- “A flock of small birds took off from the wall of the fort. They moved like a length of dark silk caught by the breeze as they headed out to sea. Behind them, the sky was the colour of forget-me-nots. The sun blazed.” ― Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
- We travel initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspaper will accommodate. Pico Iyer
- Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am… Michael Crichton
- “When I open my walletto show my paperspay moneyor check the time of a trainI look at your face.The flower’s pollenis older than the mountainsAravis is youngas mountains go.The flower’s ovuleswill be seeding stillwhen Aravis then agedis no more than a hill.The flower in the heart’swallet, the forceof what lives usoutliving the mountain.And our faces, my heart, brief asphotos.” ― John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
- “Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain,And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.” ― John Masefield
- “Very nice,” said Rick after a while. “Very nice,” he repeated, with more emphasis the second time. “What is?” I asked, turning to him, though I knew. “Everything,” he said. And it was true.” ― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- “While many explorers like to endure hardship by traveling to remote inhospitable parts of the world, I prefer to explore from the comfort of my own home.” ― Steven Magee