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Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.

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

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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, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

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The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain forever like a mirage in his mind.

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The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.

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One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

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Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn’t hit fully until you’ve been in a place for a long time.

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I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see little of it.

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One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

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Certain travelers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

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Some people can walk around the world and see nothing while others can walk around the block and see the entire world.

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Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

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People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

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Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”

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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

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One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.

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Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

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Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.

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Long distance hiking is not a vacation, it’s too long for that. It’s not recreation, too much toil and pain involved. It is, we decide, a way of life, a very simplified Spartan way of living […] life on the move […] heavy packs, sweating brow; they make you appreciate warm sunshine, companionship, cool water. The best way to appreciate these things that are precious … [ Read more ]

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

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