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The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.

The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

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

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.

The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water

The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

The pleasure of leaving home, care-free, with no concern but to enjoy, has also as a pendant the pleasure of coming back to the old hearthstone, the home to which, however traveled, the heart still fondly turns, ignoring the burden of its anxieties and cares.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown; as though the notion of movement were inseparably connected with the notion of discovery, as though each displacement of the body were a displacement of the soul.

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.

The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

There are three very good reasons to travel: 1. See the world. 2. Meet new people. 3. Room service.

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

There are many paths through the Ring of Life. They are a constant movement toward self-fulfillment through growth of your mind, expansion of your experiences, widening of your senses and growing your spirit. It's ceaseless and constant throughout one's life.

There are two kinds of cruises - pleasure and with children.

There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical of human life,--now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience.

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language.

There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety razor] in the most northern town in Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert.

There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

There's roads, and there's roads, And they call. Can't you hear it? Roads of the earth And roads of the spirit The best roads of all Are the ones that aren't certain. One of those is where you'll find me 'Til they drop the big curtain.

There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.

There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.

The roughest part of that lifestyle is the travel and early mornings.

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

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

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, the wonder of our breathing. We don't have to travel anywhere else to do so. We can be in touch with these things right now.