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“Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man towards the high destiny we hear so much of. I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. If the death exhalations that brood the broad towns in which we so fondly compact ourselves were made visible, we should flee as from a plague. All are more or less sick; there is not a perfectly sane man in San Francisco.”

Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

“I love the melody of an unknown language, the strange food, all the surprises of a strange town, and my own impatience and curiosity ... I love traveling as others love the gaming table; I anticipate a new place as others anticipate the next number to come up.”

Next Language My Own Numbers Strange Travel Towns Tables Surprise Curiosity Come Up Melody Impatience Anticipate Gaming New Places

Book:A Fine of 200 Francs

Source: A Fine of 200 Francs

“There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety razor] in the most northern town in Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert.”

Heart Use Found Individual Known Travel Towns Safety Desert Articles Distribution Razors Norway Sahara Sahara Desert

Author:King C. Gillette

“I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.”

Travel Towns Leaving Dirty Nasty Mediocre Tourists Naughty Shameless Invaders

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.”

My Own Travel Towns Clubs Funny Travel Sandwiches Good Place

Author:Paul Prudhomme

“Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.”

Knows Know How Car Travel Towns Bus Funny Travel Rail

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.”

Firsts College Travel First Time Towns Small Town Semester

Author:Alton Brown

“I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.”

Earth Three New York Travel Towns Finest New Day Short Love

Book:Witness

Source: Witness

“What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit.”

Looks Names Study Heard Travel Towns Maps Village

Book:Neither here nor there: travels in Europe

Source: Neither here nor there: travels in Europe

“As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.”

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Author:Beau Bridges

“I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.”

Thinking Trying Littles Has Beens Moving Girl Bits Youth Travel Little Bit Towns Raised Exposed Funny Travel Fingertips Moving Out

Author:Jennie Garth

“There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.”