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“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”

“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.”

“A wise traveler never despises his own country.”

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

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Book:Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

“One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.”

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”

“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”

Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”

“What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”

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

“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”

Source: Places

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”

Source: Places

“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.”

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Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”

“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”

Source: The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

“Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.”

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

Source: With Love and Irony

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”

“I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.”

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”

Source: Stories: Collected Stories

“A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.”

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Author:Tim Cahill

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

Source: Hasidism and modern man

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

Source: The Innocents Abroad

“Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.”