Books Quote by Claude Lévi-Strauss

“Centuries of travel yore suggest that when we no longer know where to turn, our real journey has just begun.”

— Phil Cousineau

“I do not believe the fable that men read travel books to escape from reality: they read to escape into it, from a crazy…

— Alex Comfort

“The monuments, the ideas left behind by beings like me are my greatest pleasure in life. Without books I would long ago have been…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn…

— Jack Kerouac

“Fueled by the need to interpret the past, to explore the present, and to imagine the future, each generation shapes the world of books.”

— Pawan Mishra

It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished…

— Henry David Thoreau

“In these days, when all things and memories of the past are at length become not only subservient to, but submerged by, the matters…

— Ptahhotep

“The world is like a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

— Old Smell of Books

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a part.”

— Anonymous

“As journeys unfold, new challenges arise and pressures mount. These successive tolls must too be paid in creativity and ingenuity, as they were by…

— Sean Patrick

“This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If…

— Rebecca Solnit