- The questions is not what you look at, but what you see. Henry David Thoreau
- “Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.” ― Saadi
- “I’ve come to realize that sometimes, what you love most is what you have to fight the hardest to keep.” ― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove
- Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T.S. Eliot
- “I once expected to spend seven years walking around the world on foot. I walked from Mexico to Panama where the road ended before an almost uninhabited swamp called the Choco Colombiano. Even today there is no road. Perhaps it is time for me to resume my wanderings where I left off as a tropical tramp in the slums of Panama. Perhaps like Ambrose Bierce who disappeared in the desert of Sonora I may also disappear. But after being in all mankind it is hard to come to terms with oblivion – not to see hundreds of millions of Chinese with college diplomas come aboard the locomotive of history – not to know if someone has solved the riddle of the universe that baffled Einstein in his futile efforts to make space, time, gravitation and electromagnetism fall into place in a unified field theory – never to experience democracy replacing plutocracy in the military-industrial complex that rules America – never to witness the day foreseen by Tennyson ‘when the war-drums no longer and the battle-flags are furled, in the parliament of man, the federation of the world.’ I may disappear leaving behind me no worldly possessions – just a few old socks and love letters, and my windows overlooking Notre-Dame for all of you to enjoy, and my little rag and bone shop of the heart whose motto is ‘Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.’ I may disappear leaving no forwarding address, but for all you know I may still be walking among you on my vagabond journey around the world.”[Shakespeare & Company, archived statement]” ― George Whitman
- The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. G.K. Chesterton
- Everybody has a unique path to travel. Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Perhaps there is no thrill so great as that which comes with a walk in the freshness of morning air.” ― Hellen Keller
- This is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. Rosita Forbes
- “Die wertvollste Reise ist die Reise zu unserem Selbst.” ― Nina Hrusa
- “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
- Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things. Kahlil Gibran
- “People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.” ― Roman Payne, Crepuscule
- It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks. Anatole France
- “No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.” ― Patrick Rothfuss
- I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. Rosalia de Castro
- “Your favorite occupation? Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner.” ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
- 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
- To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. Bill Bryson
- “Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.” ― Richard Halliburton
- “I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain. I tell her, “Get a pen. Stop crying so you can write this down and start working on it tonight.” My remedy is long. But the last item on the list says: “When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town – to pack up and go (you can even go tonight). And where you need to go is any place where there are arms that can hold you, that will not let you go.” ― bell hooks, Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
- Part 1. Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs. Charles Caleb Colton
- “She: So where do we go from here?He: Nowhere!She: What do you mean?He: You go your way and I go mine!She: Can we have a future together?He: I don’t settle down! I am the wanderer and wandering is my destiny!” ― Avijeet Das
- “Treat all men alike…. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man…free to travel… free to stop…free to work…free to choose my own teachers…free to follow the religion of my Fathers…free to think and talk and act for myself.” ― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
- “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
- To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe. Bruce Chatwin
- It’s not where you are today that counts. It’s where you are headed. Arthur F. Lenehan
- Traveling hopefully into the unknown with a little information: dead reckoning is the way most people live their lives, and the phrase itself seems to sum up human existenec. Paul Theroux
- When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is about to happen. Winnie The Pooh
- Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure. Unknown