The traveler is active; he goes strenuoysly 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 Travel quote Travel is like the high drama of youth. Its the best and worst at the same time. One minute you are flung to the depths of despair, the next, you feel the giddy, exaggerated joy of an adolescent. For me, it had been a chance to make rash decisions, to take wild risks, to lose everything knowing Id still have plenty of time to earn it all back. WENDY DALE, Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on ones own country as a foreign land. GILBERT K. CHESTERTON, Tremendous Trifles Any youth who doesnt travel is like a blind person. SEKOU CAMARA, The Dan A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Letters from a Citizen of the World For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travels sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Travels with a donkey in the Cevenne Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty. For in traveling to a truly foreign place, we inevitably travel to moods and states of mind and hidden inward passages that wed otherwise seldom have cause to visit. PICO IYER, Why We Travel Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning. HARVEY LLOYD, Cruise Travel, Apr. 1985 Travel is an attitue, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion. PAUL THEROUX, introduction, The Best American Travel Writing Travel is like knowledge. The more you see the more you know you havent seen. MARK HERTSGAARD, Earth Odyssey It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. URSULA K. LE GUIN, The Left Hand of Darkness Every traveler has a tale to tell. DAVID C. SMITH & RICHARD L. TIERNEY, The Ring of Ikribu Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. RAY BRADBURY, attributed, Emily the Strange: Piece of Mind There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animated figures. CHARLES DARWIN, The Voyage of the Beagle I dont keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don’t travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost. ALEX GARLAND, The Beach
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