Adornment Quote by Paul Fussell

Travel is the discovery of truth; an affirmation of the promise that human kind is far more beautiful than it is flawed. With each…

— Dan Thompson

“The distinction often seems precarious. Both traveler and tourist are, by definition, separate from their environment. We like to think that the role we…

— Richard Todd

travel is compost for the mind

— Martha Gellhorn

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us…

— Arthur Frommer

Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.

— Bruce Chatwin

“Travel became distinguishable from pain and began to be regarded as an intellectual pleasur...These factors--the voluntariness of departure, the freedom implicit in the indeterminancies…

— Robin Jarvis

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

— Alain de Botton

The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence of every…

— Phil Cousineau

“His naivety was of the sort that Descartes no doubt had in mind when he concluded that the study of history, like travel, while…

— John Eliot Gardiner

To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.

— Paulo Coelho

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman