Travel Quotes - Page 37

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

There's roads, and there's roads, And they call. Can't you hear it? Roads of the earth And roads of the spirit The best roads of all Are the ones that aren't certain. One of those is where you'll find me 'Til they drop the big curtain.

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don't keep reading the book. You have to travel. That's what practice is about. Traveling. Walking the path.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.

We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.

The fastest way to travel is to be there already.

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'

Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that... it kind of lets you know when it's time to go home.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.