Quotes about Travel

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."

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

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."

"Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning."

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."

"Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs."

"To travel is to take a journey into yourself."

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."

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

"If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul."

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."

"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home."

"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going."

"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."

"I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller."

"In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine."

"People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live."

"He travels the fastest who travels alone."

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air."

"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."

"To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world."

"I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."

"Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have."

"When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore."

"Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience."

"Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before."

"I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel."

"I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her."