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“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.”

Reality Happiness Nature Saws Tree Acceptance Travel Roots Forests Wilderness Rooted Earth Day Plant A Tree Forests And Trees Arbor Day Inspirational Tree

Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.”

Knows Persons Whole House Cities Saws Streets Travel

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.”

Giving Wish Saws Travel Weight Impulse Urges Dominant

Author:Alain de Botton

“It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.”

Men World Mean Made Self Born Saws Comfort Travel Satisfaction Stuck Bigotry Almighty Stubborn Conceited Opinionated Narrow-minded Narrow Minds Vandals Mean Man

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.”

Fear Term Saws Travel Illness Dread Airports Great Travel Terminal Terminal Illness

Author:Dennis Potter

“I have not told the half of what I saw.”

Half Saws Travel Polo

Author:Marco Polo

“Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don't you have a word to say?”

World Looks Long Said Remember Church Saws Land Travel Long Time Rings Sand Canvas Highways Pilgrim Nepal

Author:Al Stewart

“Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once.”

Ifs I Can Fall Saws Nice Travel Glad Telling The Truth Very Nice Niagara Niagara Falls

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America