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“[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!”

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Author:Isabella Bird

“My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is that I just can’t live anywhere on the planet.”

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Book:Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage

Source: Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage

“But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.”

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Author:Chaim Potok

“I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.”

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Author:Montel Williams

“I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.”

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Author:Sabrina Lloyd

“The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.”

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Book:A World of Strangers

Source: A World of Strangers

“For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much.”

“Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?”

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Author:Billy Connolly

“"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."”

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Book:The Little Prince:

Source: The Little Prince:

“The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The great breathing mountains expand and contract. The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. From the very beginning, throughout all its cataclysmic upthrusts and deep sea submergences, the planet Earth seems to have maintained an ordered rhythm.”

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Book:Mountain Dialogues

Source: Mountain Dialogues

“Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth.”

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Author:W. Bruce Cameron