Occupation: Explorer Birth: January 31, 1893 Death: May 9, 1993
Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared..
You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which th….
The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows..
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet ….
All our acts have sacramental possibilities..
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as ….
The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home..
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do..
Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vi….
A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necess….
This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly becom….
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….
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure..
Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good..
To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense.
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.
The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse t….
Risk is the salt and sugar of life..
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech..
An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death..
It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul..