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…

- Freya Stark

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

- Freya Stark

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…

- Freya Stark

To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense

- Freya Stark

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

- Freya Stark

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…

- Freya Stark

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…

- Freya Stark

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

- Freya Stark

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

- Freya Stark