Quotes on Roads Traveled

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

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

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 capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.