518 Quotations Found

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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I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks, who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering; which word is beautifully derived “from idle people who roved about the country, in the middle ages, and asked charity, under pretence of going à la sainte terre” — to … [ Read more ]

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When you’re (traveling) with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there’s no other way to preserve it.

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Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.

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It has been said that there are landscapes one can walk through, landscapes which can be gazed upon, landscapes in which one may dwell […]  Those fit for walking through or being gazed upon are not equal to those in which one may dwell or ramble.

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If you are walking to seek, ye shall find.

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Peregrination charms our senses with such unspeakable and sweet variety that some count him that never traveled, a kind of prisoner, and pity his case: that, from his cradle to his old age, he beholds the same still; still, still the same, the same.

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