I wanted to write an adventure story, not, it’s true, I really did. I shall have failed, that’s all. Adventures bore me. I have no idea how to talk about countries, how to make people...

…fjældene slutter sig tættere og tættere omkring os, det synes som om alt håp er ute, bare litt himmel er synlig ret over vore hodet. Det virker beklemmende på os, vi overvældes og tier. Pludselig...

Science rock: The pursuit of science, lead us to the beautiful places of the world.

At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

…the Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation...

The road was wet with rain, black and shiny like oilskin. The reflection of the street lamps wallowed like yellow jelly-fish. A bus was approaching – a bus to Piccadilly, a bus to the never-never...

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.

Don’t ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.

Find pleasure in the path, even if the destination can’t be foreseen.

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it...

Here’s what I love about travel: strangers get a chance to amaze you. Sometimes a single day can bring a blooming surprise, a simple kindness that opens a chink in the brittle shell of your...

Obviously, the travel is an issue. This was the worst-case scenario. When we tip off, I think we should forget about it, though.

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a...

Putovanje neće riješiti tvoje probleme, samo će te natjerati da na njih gledaš iz druge perspektive.

So long, in fact, as you remain in ignorance of what to aim at and what to avoid, what is essential and what is superfluous, what is upright or honorable conduct and what is not,...

The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then,...

I don’t know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think.

There are a lot of factors we didn’t deal with before. You can travel halfway around the world and come back in a week. Illnesses that may have taken months to work their way around...

The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking deep into my eyes, he whispered: ‘The Gond kingdoms have fallen, their people...

When I travel, people say ‘Yet another place in this world’. But I see ‘Another world inside every place I go

Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after,you...

Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

As is often the case when I travel, my vulnerability — like not knowing what the hell I’m going to do upon arrival — makes me more open to outside interactions than I might be...

I lack the imagination. For that reason I have to pack, stuff into my pockets odds and ends, passport, money, and go see what it’s really like. Whenever the time of year or the weather...

I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.

Travel is rebellion in its purest form. – we follow our heart- we free ourselves of labels- we lose control willingly- we trade a role for reality- we love the unfamiliar- we trust strangers- we...

A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it’s made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no...

Finding a taxi, she felt like a child pressing her nose to the window of a candy store as she watched the changing vista pass by while the twilight descended and the capital became bathed...

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my heart an echo, such as no other assemblage of syllables, however sweet or classic, can produce. Belgium!...

In traveling, there is nothing like dissecting people’s statements, which are usually colored by their estimate of the powers or likings of the person spoken to, making all reasonable inquiries, and then pertinaciously but quietly...

Just imagine if you took all the money you’ve spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. Think about how much you would know about...

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one’s life…

Putting the dream in motion involved significant personal downsizing, moving three times to trim housing expenses and continuing to freelance. I sold one piece to The New York Times Magazine, many more to The Courant,...

You’d be surprised who will back down when you speak up.

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

Non si può vivere in questo mondo, ma non c’è nessun altro posto dove andare.

It was the inverse of an island in the sea.

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.

Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the...

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

Soon you catch your first glimpse of a vineyard basking in the sun, its broad leaves silently turning sunlight into sugar, ripening vitis vinifera, the European grapes that make the world’s finest wines. For a...

All times are connected. Treasure each moment.

The older I got the more I appreciated the role of travel as a stimulus to memories, and the way in which journeys even to new places were somehow always awakening memories of places seen...

The pursuit of your life purpose is a unique journey.

I love getting lost on purpose

…Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you’ve ever been there, you know the signs don’t tell you the exit you’re coming up...