Quote by Paul Bowles

“He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. The difference is partly one of time, he would explain. Whereas…

— Paul Bowles

Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place…

— Paul Bowles

“...travel is ultimately about creating a contrast with everyday life, thereby refreshing your mind and making time seem more spacious.”

— Annie Raser-Rowland

“A traveller moves among real people in their own milieu and learns from them, soaking up their wisdom and philosophy, their way of being…

— Roxanne Reid

“Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.”

— Gloria Steinem

“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”

— Paul Theroux

Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours…

— Pico Iyer

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Another important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it…

— Paul Bowles

The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the…

— Jonathan Raban

A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's…

— Thomas H. Cook

The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing…

— Samuel Johnson