TRAVEL QUOTES VI

quotations about travel

Travel is one of the greatest facilitators of creation, if only because it forces us to observe other ways of creating things.

BLAKE SNOW

"Off The Grid: Why Do We Travel?", Paste Magazine, May 16, 2017


When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries, where he hath travelled, altogether behind him; but maintain a correspondence by letters, with those of his acquaintance, which are of most worth. And let his travel appear rather in his discourse, than his apparel or gesture; and in his discourse, let him be rather advised in his answers, than forward to tell stories; and let it appear that he doth not change his country manners, for those of foreign parts; but only prick in some flowers, of that he hath learned abroad, into the customs of his own country.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Travel", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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Travel is like knowledge. The more you see the more you know you haven't seen.

MARK HERTSGAARD

Earth Odyssey


Better sit still where born, I say,
Wed one sweet woman and love her well,
Love and be loved in the old East way,
Drink sweet waters, and dream in a spell,
Than to wander in search of the Blessed Isles,
And to sail the thousands of watery miles
In search of love, and find you at last
On the edge of the world, and a curs'd outcast.

JOAQUIN MILLER

Pace Implora


To travel is to possess the world.

E. BURTON HOLMES

American Review of Reviews, December 1907


Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

PAUL THEROUX

introduction, The Best American Travel Writing


Though they carry nothing forth with them, yet in all their journey they lack nothing. For wheresoever they come, they be at home.

SIR THOMAS MORE

"Of Their Journeying or Travelling Abroad", Utopia

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I depart,
Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by
When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

LORD BYRON

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making


On journeys it has happened many times before that something I especially desire withholds itself. Travel is like knowledge: much remains unknown and imperfectly seen, a situation not always remedied by checking museum hours, which are, in any case, changeable. And, too, the direct gaze, for all its virtues, can obscure: some things can simply not be seen head-on in the sun's glare.

EMILY HIESTAND

The Very Rich Hours


I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

attributed, The Quotable Traveler


Travel is the soul of civilization.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

attributed, The Art of Pilgrimage

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Travel not too fast, if you would learn.

PETER RAMUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Travel", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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Any youth who doesn't travel is like a blind person.

SEKOU CAMARA

"The Dan"


Travel is like love, involving all its possible phases--its approaches, its games, its crystallisations, or its claps of thunder, even to the point of temporal disorientation or spatial displacement, from a change of place to the embrace of a new and totally different destination, as if in the bodily form of a woman met by chance, through whose union a masterpiece is accomplished.

JEAN CASSOU

attributed, The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World


A wise traveller never despises his own country.

CARLO GOLDONI

attributed, Day's Collacon


Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

CATO

attributed, Day's Collacon


The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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The real voyage of discovery ... consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

MARCEL PROUST

The Maxims of Marcel Proust

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