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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

“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

“New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves.”

Giving Facts Home Seems Knowing Nice Streets Proud Travel New Yorkers

Author:Katharine Brush

“But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”

Source: Neither here nor there: travels in Europe

“By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream”

World Book Enough Dream Past Lines Streets Travel Corners Streams Contemplating Idle Hook Dip Crooks Street Corners

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“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

“They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things-- I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something.”

“Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world.”

World Dream Jobs Streets Travel Decided Let Me Around The World Developing Performing Permit Funny Travel Let Me Go

Author:Guy Laliberte

“So how can you tell me you're lonely, and say for you that the sun don't shine? Let me take you by the hand, and lead you through the streets of London. I'll show you something to make you change your mind.”

Mind Shows Hands Sun Streets Travel Lonely Let Me Shining London Changing Your Mind

Author:Ralph McTell

“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

“It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.”

Night Blood Streets Travel Wounds Heal Flames Shirts Hotel Perfume Whiskey Keepers Suitcases Battered Sweepers Prima Donnas

Book:The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983

Source: The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983

“Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.”

Way Night Walks Streets Adventure Travel Nine Bars Enjoyed Parks Hotel Performers Exploring Funny Travel Mayors Intriguing Madrid New Adventure Tapas Narrow Streets Street Performers

Author:Emilio Estevez

“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.”

Source: Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps