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With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past

Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

You can pack a bag and take a plane somewhere, anywhere, and when you get there and open the bag - lying right on top will be whatever you're running away from. The very first thing you'll have to unpack.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.

You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is pulling you up the mountain. You're headed toward Yosemite more than 4,000 feet of pounding the pedals. You are aware of every movement because your thighs feel tender with a sensation of pain. You push on, toward the final ascent into the valley. In front of you is a monster mountain-El Capitan. Your eyes grow wide. You take a deep breath. Suddenly, you feel only wonder.

You want to know what it's like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don't stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

AAAAHHHHHHHhhhhh! WHOOSH, WHOOSH, YOU BASTARD!

A bad leader wouldn't stress the importance of staying together to stop the enemy. You want peace? You can't forgive the enemy, if you can't forgive your men for losing faith. You can't force every one single Union deserter to fight, but I know, only you can inspire every deserter to fight for their cause." - Amelia Raht

ABC on that bed sheet, words on that book, well i am on a curiosity voyage and i need my paddles to travel, so books r my paddles (Ejump, 2017)

A boat would seem to be an object whose one purpose is to travel, but its real purpose is not to travel but to reach harbour. We found ourselves on the high seas, with no idea of which port we should be aiming for.

A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.

A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.

A difficult journey is spiritual rewarding. There is a more dependence on God, His supernatural power, grace and divine favour long the travel.

... a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane.

Adventure begins with a thought, decision and action.

Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient...

A chipped concrete bunker shaped like an infantryman’s helmet was tilted insolently on a mound at the track’s edge.

A donation to the police officer's back pocket should have you on your way without a problem.

A drop of darkness above me hung,within me ruined Rome,within me demolished Rome, where those lands my dream would well travel, before that I want to die without blame,so let me see ten thousand moons to Dream.

[A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result - and have been since at least the time of Odysseus - of the fatal act of leaving one's home, or trying to return to it again. All adventures happen in that damned and magical space, wherever it may be found or chanced upon, which least resembles one's home. As soon as you have crossed your doorstep or the county line, into that place where the structures, laws, and conventions of your upbringing no longer apply, where the support and approval (but also the disapproval and repression) of your family and neighbors are not to be had: then you have entered into adventure, a place of sorrow, marvels, and regret.

A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its story.

After a lifetime of soft, easy living in the West, one's buttocks take an awful hammering out here. Backpacking around India is just one long round of sitting on bone-hard, chafing, bruising and generally uncomfortable seats-whether in buses our trains, or restaurants or cinemas. There is no such thing as a padded seat in the whole country.

After every voyage, we bring with us renewed mind, refreshed soul and new viewpoints on life.

After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.

A fulfilling and successful journey, begins with a great spirit of absolute determination.

A girl who travels has relationships that are based not on security, but on sincerity

A girl who travels won’t need a saviour; she’ll need an accompanier. And she’ll need someone who lives that way too.