Quotes on Travel

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

He moves fastest who moves alone.

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time".

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

He who must travel happily must travel light.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.

I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.