Travel Quotes - Page 40

• Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

  James J. Hill

  Adventure, Men, Share

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• Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

  Ibn Battuta

  Inspirational, Adventurous, Speechless

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• Number one way life would be different if dogs ran the world: All motorists must drive with head out window.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Dog, Numbers

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• A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Acquisition, Desert

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our magnetic oceans. I should go among the rays of the aurora, and follow them to their beginnings, and study their dealings and communications with other powers and expressions of matter.

  John Muir

  Nature, Communication, Ocean

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Land, People

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• They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

  Mark Twain

  Humorous, Foreigners, Spells

  The Innocents Abroad ch. 19 (1869)

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• I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

  Ed Bradley

  Cities, Paris, Three

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• It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.

  Bill Vaughan

  Cutting, Way, Forests

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• Over time, each day has become another stretch on an endless pilgrimage road. The terrain of this sacred journey has become fluid and ever-shifting. Every step of the way is an arrival, but not a place to linger.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Journey, Each Day, Sacred

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• The best motto for a long march is 'Don't grumble. Plug on.

  Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet

  Long, March, Motto

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• New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Sight, Cities, Inspire

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.177

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• Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.

  Sara Genn

  Perspective, Backyards, Grants

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• I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.

  Toni Onley

  Home, Land, Sky

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• If you have never taken the train across Canada, you really should put it on your life list... Meanwhile, I get to sit back and watch for moose from the dome car as we roll through the lake-dotted vastness of the boreal forest.

  Elizabeth May

  Taken, Lakes, Car

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• 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

  Real, Eye, Essence

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• 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

  Reading, Joy, Tourists

  Marsden Hartley (1998). “Somehow a Past: The Autobiography of Marsden Hartley”, p.135, MIT Press

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• Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

  Wanda Koop

  Beautiful, Years, One Day

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• I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Men, Might

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1546, Delphi Classics

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• Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Kings, Men, People

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.22

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• I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mountain, Might, Path

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Elevating Ourselves: Thoreau on Mountains”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

  Anais Nin

  Blessed, Passion, Eye

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

  Anais Nin

  Paradise, Illusion, Lost

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• Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education,
  But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Add, Superficial, Surface

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Tupper's Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated : first and second series”, p.220

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• Omaha is a little like Newark, without Newark's glamour.

  Joan Rivers

  Home, Littles, Glamour

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