If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else. —Caroline Llewellyn More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Photographer Yousuf Karsh and his wife were having lunch with astronaut Neil Armstrong after a photo session. Armstrong politely questioned the couple about the many different countries they had visited. "But, Mr. Armstrong," protested Mrs. Karsh, "you've walked on the moon. We want to hear about your travels." "But that's the only place I've ever been," replied Armstrong apologetically. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: space countries travel place photography Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Wherever you go, the sky is the same color. —Persian saying More about this quote Tags: commonality colors sky Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: perception perspective travel returning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Each instant is a place we've never been. —Mark Strand More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. —Lillian Smith More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Traveling is a fool's paradise. . . . I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: identity self travel paradise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We borrow the light of an observant and imaginative traveler and see the foreign land bright with his aura; and we think it is the country which shines. —H. M. Tomlinson More about this quote Tags: light travel Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes — with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating. —Michael Crichton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. —Charles Kuralt More about this quote Tags: change seeing travel efficiency Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
. . . who drove cross-country seventy-two hours to find out if I had a vision or you / had a vision or he had a vision to find out Eternity. —Allen Ginsberg More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. —William Least Heat Moon More about this quote Tags: now past present travel yesterday Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In old age, wandering on a trail of beauty, lively may I walk. It is finished in beauty. —Navajo nightway chant More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-three today, and we don't know where the hell she is. —Ellen DeGeneres More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast. —Paul Scott Mowrer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email