Travel Quotes

"A right that very few intellectuals bother to claim is the right to wander, the freedom to roam."

Isabelle Eberhardt

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."

Jacques Cousteau

"No water, no life. No blue, no green."

Sylvia Earle

"Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people."

Thor Heyerdahl

"Victory awaits him who has everything in order – luck, people call it."

Roald Amundsen

"The history of the human race is a continual struggle from the darkness toward the light."

Fridtjof Nansen

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"A great way to learn about your country is to leave it."

Henry Rollins

"Walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food."

Anthony Bourdain

"I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills."

William Wordsworth

"My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here."

Robert Burns

"There is no Frigate like a Book to take us Lands away."

Emily Dickinson

"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything."

Charles Kuralt

"When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home."

Erma Bombeck

"Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it."

Paul Theroux

"Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going."

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

James Baldwin

"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea."

Isak Dinesen

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."

Anaïs Nin

"Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark."

Rebecca Solnit

"You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate."

Seneca

"They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea."

Horace

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"There is no place like home."

L. Frank Baum