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- Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
- The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem…
- Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the…
- Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
- Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.
- Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.
- In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.
- Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.
- Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.
- Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.
- Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life
- You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by…
- Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
- Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
- Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
- The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.
- A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and…
- Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather…
- travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.
- The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect:…
- All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is…
- The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances…
- Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and…
- ... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.
- It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
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- 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