Quotes on Travel Writing

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

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

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

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

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

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