Travel Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

I am very little of a traveler.

— Henry David Thoreau

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

— Henry David Thoreau

A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

— Henry David Thoreau

“It matters not where or how far you travel,--the farther commonly the worse,--but how much alive you are.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

— Henry David Thoreau

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle…

— Henry David Thoreau

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

— Henry David Thoreau

A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

— Henry David Thoreau

It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.

— Henry David Thoreau

Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.

— Henry David Thoreau

He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me…

— Henry David Thoreau

I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if…

— Henry David Thoreau

I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth…

— Henry David Thoreau

Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a…

— Henry David Thoreau

So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for…

— Henry David Thoreau

There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly…

— Henry David Thoreau

The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further…

— Henry David Thoreau

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested…

— Henry David Thoreau

When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so…

— Henry David Thoreau

A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity…

— Henry David Thoreau

This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows…

— Henry David Thoreau

If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years…

— Henry David Thoreau

I do believe that the outward and the inward life correspond; that if any should succeed to live a higher life, others…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is far more independent to travel on foot. You have to sacrifice so much to the horse. You cannot choose the…

— Henry David Thoreau

A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his…

— Henry David Thoreau

The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a…

— Henry David Thoreau

Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it,--to penetrate to the shores…

— Henry David Thoreau

I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary…

— Henry David Thoreau

Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does…

— Henry David Thoreau

The village is the place to which the roads tend, a sort of expansion of the highway, as a lake of a…

— Henry David Thoreau

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

— Henry David Thoreau

Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.

— Henry David Thoreau

Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.

— Henry David Thoreau

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

— Henry David Thoreau

The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.

— Henry David Thoreau

At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

— Henry David Thoreau

To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.

— Henry David Thoreau