With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where...

I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand.

They are the largest collection of freshwater lakes in the world. They border eight U.S. states and the Canadian Providence of Ontario and at time have supplied water to one-third of Canadians and one-seventh of...

The few times I said to myself anywhere: ‘Now that’s a nice spot for a permanent home,’ I would immediately hear in my mind the thunder of an avalanche carrying away the hundreds of far...

Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling… we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of...

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.

The ordinary traveler, who never goes off the beaten route and who on this beaten route is carried by others, without himself doing anything or risking anything, does not need to show much more initiative...

I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

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

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

Today..passes as yesterday, today is passing by… Tomorrow shall become today and that too shall pass!

You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

I pity snails, and all that carry their homes on their backs.

You can go everywhere, but in the end you run back into yourself.

If you’ve broken any promises you’ve made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.

If it’s true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.

With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.

Dobbiamo andare e non fermarci finché non siamo arrivati.- Dove andiamo?- Non lo so, ma dobbiamo andare.

Perhaps it’s true you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are...

But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a tourist, or even a traveller....

The most amazing travellers were to humble to write about it

The passion for travelling is, I believe, instinctive in some natures. We have seen men persevere in their enterprises against the most formidable obstacles; and, without means or friends, and even ignorant of the languages...

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were,...

The open road. Seemingly my only friend for years upon end since leaving war. The road embraced me, let me breathe, and more importantly, did not judge me.

Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.

Find your path in life and travel on it.

Keep traveling, even if you don’t know where the road will end.

There are map people whose joy is to lavish more attention on the sheets of colored paper than on the colored land rolling by. I have listened to accounts by such travelers in which every...

London was one of the worst places to have a bad day and one of the best places to have a good day

Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we’d probably learn twice as much.

Singapore is what your city could become if everyone obeyed the rules, did their jobs diligently, and just shut up. When your city gets to be this paragon of efficiency and discipline, would you still...

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

The travel wears you down, it really does. But they (the Lightning) had to travel far to get here, too, and they’re not used to the time difference. It all evens out.

In any age, there is no shortage of people willing to embark on a hazardous adventure. Columbus and Magellan filled eight ships between them for voyages into the void. One hundred and fifty years ago,...

Explore often. Only when you will know how small you are and how big the world is.

Hip-hop…has been the proverbial key that’s opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.

I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don’t talk in English and don’t even want to.

I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn’t feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, or a round-the-world cruise, it wouldn’t have made one scrap...

Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I...

I’m not a foreigner because I haven’t been praying to return safely home, I haven’t wasted my time imagining my house, my desk, my side of the bed. I am not a foreigner because we...

…all the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel — the welcoming hand of the interested stranger.

Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be...

The beauty of traveling solo is that you wonder unexpectedly, but almost certainly into the direction you were meant to go.

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other...

The romance of travel wasn’t always terribly evident to those who were actually experiencing it.

We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known