“It's temples and palaces did seem Like fabrics of enchantment pil'd to heaven.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller” — Sam Miller Copy Share Image
The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
“There are beautiful places everywhere; we just have to travel with a beautiful heart.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“When you take the right stairs you will arrive at the precise destination.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations. — Eugene Linden Copy Share Image
“Your inner light is greater than the darkness. May your light shine brightly in every path you travel.” — Lailah GiftyAkita Copy Share Image
“There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the… — Edwin Mullins Copy Share Image
“Deferring judgement to a later date resolves nothing and all you are left with is a box of jumbled slides and a… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
“I ended up in the back seat of a chicken truck’s cab heading through beautiful scenery and disastrous roads to my hotel.… — Jennifer S. Alderson Copy Share Image
“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad.… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“...what I'm getting at is like the distinction between tourist and a traveler. The tourist experience is superficial and glancing. The traveler… — Ted Conover Copy Share Image
“Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, you begin to realize how short life is.… — Nicholas Kontis Copy Share Image
“Consulting maps can diminish the wanderlust that they awaken,as the act of looking at them can replace the act of travel. But… — Judith Schalansky Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, you feel yourself weightless, thinned. You draw back the curtains (if there are any) on a rectangle of wasteland at dawn,… — Colin Thubron Copy Share Image
I don't know where this thing about me being a travel writer comes from. It's nothing to do with me; I hate… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
For years, I meant to read 'Arabian Sands', Wilfred Thesiger's account of two punishing camel journeys during the late 1940s across Southern… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“You wind back the clock several decades when you visit a Lonely Place; and when you touch down, you half expect a… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church...” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Science rock: The pursuit of science, lead us to the beautiful places of the world.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Sicily is paradise. I live in paradise. Now pass the pasta please.” — Alfred Zappala Copy Share Image
Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“...how many of us have a moved heart that shies away to a different angle, a millimetre or even less from the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“There is a Cinzano on the table beside me and a siphon of aerated water. I am at a loss to know… — Peter Mayne Copy Share Image
“And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As a writer you must keep a tight rein on your subjective self—the traveler touched by new sights and sounds and smells—and… — William Knowlton Zinsser Copy Share Image
“She daydreams just as I do. She loves watching the raindrops fall slowly from the sky just as I do. She gets… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top… — Pete McCarthy Copy Share Image
