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Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

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We are born strangers in a strange land and remain so. Travel simply reminds us of this essential truth.

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Travel itself is not an answer. It can’t save you from yourself, or the demons that you have. You will bring them along with you as you roam. You can’t absolve yourself of your responsibilities or the monotony of routines that will reappear the minute you stop moving. And if you travel to escape darkness, it will eventually find you.

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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

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Before I commenced photography I did not see half the beauties in nature that I do now, and the glory and power of a precious landscape has often passed before me and left but a feeble impression on my untutored mind; but it will never be so again.

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To be enduring, a travelogue needs context; it needs to speak to what has come before, but most of all it needs to add to our understanding of a place and its people today. Too many travel bloggers think that they are achieving the latter by putting a hackneyed description in front of a new set of eyeballs, but the historians of the future, surveying … [ Read more ]

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An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

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Some author that I have met with compares a judicious traveler to a river that increases its stream the farther it flows from its source, or to certain springs which running through rich veins of minerals improve their qualities as they pass along.

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Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

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Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

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One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

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Just remember when you start down the road of travel photography that far too many sacrifice their perfect experiences in the present when traveling for an imperfect view/experience in the future. It is an easy trap to fall into in our modern world that something has not really happened unless it has been photographed or recorded. Enjoy your trip and time, record moments (good and … [ Read more ]

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You must lay aside the burdens of the mind; until you do this, no place will satisfy you. […] That trouble once removed, all change of scene will become pleasant; though you may be driven to the uttermost ends of the earth, in whatever corner of a savage land you may find yourself, that place, however forbidding, will be to you a hospitable abode.

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Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason which set you wandering is ever at your heels.

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We tend to grossly overestimate the pleasure brought forth by new experiences and underestimate the power of finding meaning in current ones. While travel is a fantastic way to gain insight into unfamiliar cultures and illuminating ways of life, it is not a cure for discontentment of the mind.

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He who has not traveled widely thinks that his mother is the best cook.

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Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

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All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

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