Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much ….

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is t….

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me..

Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination..

But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?.

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign..

Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure..

sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latt….

All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not..

Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love..

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions..

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots..

One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all….

The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth..

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly ….

I would distinguish between a visitor and a pilgrim: both will come to a place and go away again, but a visitor arrives, a pilgrim is restored. A vis….

On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of ….

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading liter….

My next adventure will be being in a car with Mischa at the wheel..

The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by..

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve..