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“He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of his own country cannot…

— Al Masudi

“Once I had thought chiefly of the man of letters, the traveler, the poet, the lover; none of that had faded, to be sure,…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“The trains [in a country] contain the essential paraphernalia of the culture: Thai trains have the shower jar with the glazed dragon on its…

— Paul Theroux

“After twelve centuries, a little hope had come into the world - and then came an illiterate prince to ride roughshod over it with…

— Anonymous

“The trains in any country contain the essential paraphernalia of the culture: Thai trains have the shower jar with the glazed dragon on its…

— Paul Theroux

“The skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or footsteps”

— Lao Tzu

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.

— Rory Stewart

He sees the land of meaning, and one path to it, and the so-called “normal” people traveling swiftly and in comfort to the land;…

— Janet Frame

“But I have heard that he who is skilful in managing the life entrusted to him for a time travels on the land without…

— Lao Tzu

“From Desert Prince, Expectant Mother … “he had the aura of a mystical knight, with power enough to bear mythic burdens, determination enough to…

— Olivia Gates

“So he had passed beyond the challenge of the sentries who had stood as guardians of his boyhood and had sought to keep him…

— James Joyce

The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart…To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could…

— Thomas Wolfe