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“New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.”

Loses Cities Situation Seeing Streets Inspire Travel Benefits Sight Mere New Thought New Situations

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.”

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Author:Andre Gide

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

Source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel

“Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.”

Ifs Self Hands Names Seeing Duty Goes On Travel Conscience Sight Bullying Conductor Inexorable Upper Hand

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.”

Humans Doe Rich Strange Travel Sight Shore Strange Things

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.”

Way Firsts Different Pleasure Seeing Travel Findings Sight Faults Different Ways Enjoyment Latter Admiration Novelty Animated Fault Finding

Book:Romance and Reality

Source: Romance and Reality

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”

“If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.”

Ifs Mean Ends Journey Travel Rivers Sight Ships Sail Sailing My Journey Sailing Ships

Author:Enoch Powell

“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'”

Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

“Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.”

Men Mind Heart Eye Sound Nature Existence Teacher Influence Travel Sight Breathe Treasure His Eyes Mother Nature Earth And Nature Inspirational Nature Sight And Sound

Author:Alfred Nobel

“I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.”

People Ifs Taken Travel Married Sight Disappointment Disappointed Brides Tourism Married Life Waterfalls Niagara Niagara Falls

Book:The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

“If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.”

Ifs Two War Might Lines Race Terrible Travel Sight Victim Green Graves Fallen Lakes Funny Travel Pacific Philanthropist

Book:Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

Source: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

“We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.”

Way Inspirational May Reason Running Loses Chance Walks Journey Missing Travel Sight Rainbow Traveled Life Journey My Journey Life Path

Author:Gloria Gaither

“The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from here to Here.”

Lasts Spiritual Wonder Journey Masters Travel Experience Sight Reaching Destination

Author:Meher Baba

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends”

“You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.”

Firsts Persons Fall Travel Sight Falling In Love Love At First Sight

Book:Hot Countries: A Travel Book

Source: Hot Countries: A Travel Book

“Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty.”

Way Two Shows Might Values Grows Issues Travel Sight Rounds Two Ways

Author:Pico Iyer

“You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.”

World Left Nature Higher Mountain Travel Highest Sight Climbs Climbing Everest Mount Everest Mountain Climbers Climbing Mount Everest Mt Everest

Author:Willi Unsoeld

“I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me. Have I been blind? Have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind? Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen? I've walked these streets, in a spectacle of wealth & poverty. In the diamond market, the scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me.”

Mind Eye Lost Wealth My Own Poverty Streets Travel Sight Blind Welcome Diamond Thrill Carpet Seekers Crowded Dealer Scarlet Carnivals Vendors Mesmerized These Streets Thrill Seekers

Author:Natalie Merchant