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Travel Quotes by Pico Iyer
- Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
- We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.
- My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as…
- I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances,…
- Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.
- We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.
- Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it…
- So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.
- Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.
- We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about…
- We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.
- And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive,…
- I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about…
More Travel Quotes
- 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