Travel Quotes

"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them."

"If you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can."

Beryl Markham

"If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."

Charles Lindbergh

"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."

Joseph Conrad

"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth... then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can."

Herman Melville

"The voice of the sea speaks to the soul."

Kate Chopin

"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."

Vincent van Gogh

"Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody."

Jane Jacobs

"Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears."

Italo Calvino

"Vagabonding is about gaining the courage to loosen your grip on the so-called certainties of this world."

Rolf Potts

"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."

Kurt Vonnegut

"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall."

Ray Bradbury

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

Alan Watts

"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place."

Washington Irving

"Travel in my opinion is a profitable exercise; the mind is constantly stimulated by observing new and unknown things."

Michel de Montaigne

"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."

Ernest Shackleton

"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."

Neil Armstrong

"Home is where the heart is."

Pliny the Elder

"The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation."

"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us."

"You are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step."

Robyn Davidson

"A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our doorstep once again."

Ryszard Kapuściński

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."

"The beckoning counts, and not the clicking latch behind you."

Freya Stark

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."