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Travel Quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin
- The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen…
- Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided…
- The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.
- The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally…
- Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with…
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- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel. — Neil Armstrong
- Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have… — David Attenborough
- I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. — David Attenborough
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood
- I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Saint Augustine
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. — Jane Austen