quotations about travel
The real voyage of discovery ... consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST
The Maxims of Marcel Proust
He didn't really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.
JULIAN BARNES
Flaubert's Parrot
Travel is ... a means of conquering space and time.
JILLY TRAGANOU
Travel, Space, Architecture
A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
EDWARD ABBEY
Desert Solitaire
The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
Table Talk
Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
JACK KEROUAC
On the Road
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
ITALO CALVINO
Invisible Cities
If your goal is to broaden your world, travel is de rigueur.
LEWIS WALKER
"Travel dreams 2017", Dunwoody Crier, May 16, 2017
Traveling thoughtfully means traveling closer to the core ... like living closer to the core. It means traveling with open eyes, taking in the culture, living like the locals do, as much as a traveler can. Thoughtful travel is not about whizzing through a place or series of places at 90 mph--the old if it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium routine. No, thoughtful travel is slowing down and experiencing the place you are in its fullest.
JANET LUHRS
The Simple Living Guide
The traveler is active; he goes strenuously in search of people, of adventure, or experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN
attributed, Voyages of Discover
The reason why there are so many narrow-minded people in the world is, because there is so little travelling in it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Travel is the last fantasy the 2Oth Century left us, the delusion that going somewhere helps you reinvent yourself.
J. G. BALLARD
Millennium People
Modern travel is like fast food: short, sharp incursions that do not weave a spell. In our age, tourism has made the planet into a uniform spectacle, and it has made us perpetual strangers wandering through an imitation of an imitation of a place we once wanted to go.
LAWRENCE OSBORNE
The Naked Tourist
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.
HORACE
Epistles
Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one's imagination.
ROSS MORLEY
attributed, Vagabonding
I think it not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
OWEN FELTHAM
attributed, Day's Collacon
The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.
MARSDEN HARTLEY
Somehow a Past
Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader