Best journey & traveler Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

“We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that trees are travelers in the ordinary sense. They make many journeys, not extensive ones, it is true; but our own little journeys, away and back again, are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much.”

Men Way Life Littles Together Nature Tree Journey Humility Wind Ordinary Storm Traveler Stewardship Back Again Milky Way

Book:John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California

Source: John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California

“In the deep jungles of Africa, a traveler was making a long trek. Coolies had been engaged from a tribe to carry the loads. The first day they marched rapidly and went far. The traveler had high hopes of a speedy journey. But the second morning these jungle tribesmen refused to move. For some strange reason they just sat and rested. On inquiry as to the reason for this strange behavior, the traveler was informed that they had gone too fast the first day, and that they were now waiting for their souls to catch up with their bodies.”

Firsts Long Soul Reason Body Moving Waiting Morning Gone Journey Strange Behavior Sat Engaged Load Traveler Tribes Inquiry Jungle

Author:Lettie Cowman

“Sometimes the most interesting visual phenomena occur when you least expect it. Other times, you think youre getting something amazing and the photographs turn out to be boring and predictable. So I think thats why, a long time ago, I consciously tried to let go of artists angst, and instead just hope for the best and enjoy it. I love the journey as much as the destination. If I wasnt a photographer, Id still be a traveler.”

“The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.”

Years Two Different Character Three Wise Journey Events Ego Distance Versions Leisure Looking Back Traveler Distracted Impatient Tease Different Characters Alter Ego

Author:Jonathan Raban

“I was saddened to learn of the passing of Leonard Nimoy, a fellow space traveler because he helped make the journey into the final frontier accessible to us all.... Indeed, there are strange new worlds to explore -- to seek out new life and start new civilizations. It is time to boldly go where no man -- or woman -- has gone before. Thanks to Leonard Nimoy and his beloved Mr. Spock, the bar has been set high for us to continue humanity's quest to probe outward in the universe.”

“We are only here below as in an inn on a journey. Let us, then have the feelings of travelers. We should think a man very strange who attached himself much to his inn. The wise Christian will not do this.”

Thinking Men Should Feelings Christian Wise Journey Strange Traveler Inns

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and his argument--that our future is being shaped far away 'at the ends of the earth'--makes his travelogue pertinent and compelling reading.”

Firsts Ends Earth Reading Journey Argument Our Future Far Away Plates Compelling Traveler Pertinent

Author:Michael Ignatieff

“A wise traveler never despises his own country.”

“For a master, the rewards gained along the way are fine, but they are not the main reason for the journey. Ultimately the master and the master's path are one. And if the traveler is fortunate - that is, if the path is complex and profound enough - the destination is two miles farther away for every mile he or she travels.”

Ifs Way Two Reason Enough Path Journey Masters Fine Profound Complexes Rewards Miles Fortunate Destination Traveler

Book:Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

Source: Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

“Travel is about failure or overcoming obstacles, overcoming failures. When a traveler is having lots of good luck, that is not a happy book. That's a book you say, well, I don't need that. I want a life lesson. I want to find out - I want a journey that reflects my life.”

Want Needs Wells Book Journey Lessons Overcoming Luck Obstacles Life Lesson Traveler Good Luck Overcoming Failure

Author:Paul Theroux

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

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler.”

Matter Purpose Powerful Journey Findings Metaphor Traveler Pilgrimage

Book:The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred

Source: The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred

“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

“Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.”

Country Perfect Journey Travel Traveler Inspiring Travel Crete

Book:Japan, China

Source: Japan, China

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”