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“I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.”

Knows Humans Different Country Earth Form Purpose My Own Quality Gone Human Nature Travel Spread Foreign Countries Human Qualities

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.”

Form Travel Despair Various Stations

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.”

Book Done Romance Form Wonder Plans Travel Guides Comic Traveler Scandal Exotic Anomalies Travel Books

Book:Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars

Source: Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars

“Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.”

World Giving Form Drama Travel Passing Passings Freeways

Author:Jim Morrison

“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”

Life Wisdom Form Found Adventure Travel Photography Experience Exploration Mastery Exploration And Adventure

Book:Ansel Adams: An Autobiography

Source: Ansel Adams: An Autobiography

“A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.”

Form Adventure Travel Funny Travel Cohesion

Book:Authority and the Individual

Source: Authority and the Individual

“Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.”

Knows Art Care Past Faces Form Turns Cities Strange Hero Travel Who You Are Available Coffee Shops Shed Nobody Knows Astonishment Coffee Shop Credentials Unarmed Everyman Checkered

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.”

Form Order Lost Realizing Differences Cities Travel Distance Clouds Dust Racist Continents

Author:Italo Calvino

“Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell”

Mind Form Forever Travel Spells

Book:Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

“The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.”

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.”

Form Journey Travel Time Travel Traveler Introspection Great Travel Inspiring Travel

Book:Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

Source: Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

“Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.”

Form Travel Ties Contracts Hospitality Foreign Travel

Author:Seneca the Younger