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“Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.”

“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.”

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.”

“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.”

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”

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

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”

“Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.”

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.”

“There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.”

“According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

“A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them.”

“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.”