Because travel was an area of my life where I felt most vital, I wanted to continue to invest in that, too. I had quit a full time job, drained my retirement account to invest...

Whether you need to make a call or answer one,don’t put your passions on hold.

It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my thoughts again and again and always happily—the idea that geology is the music...

Let me sing the beauty of my Maggie. Legs:–the knees attached to the thighs, knees shiny, thighs like milk. Arms:–the levers of my content, the serpents of my joy. Back:–the sight of that in a...

I know it’s not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it’s just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too...

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

In an age of guidebooks, websites, and radio waves, discovery has nearly become a lost feeling. If anything, it is now a matter of expectations to surpass—rarely a matter of unexpected wonderment. It is unusual...

Ar daug žmonių mes mylime iš tikrųjų? Turėtum žinoti, juk esi daug keliavęs?- Tik vieną kitą…

Somewhere nere Ogallala, about six hours into that majestic, maddening prairie, I realize that half an hour has passed since I’ve seen a vehicle in either direction.Oh, I think, as I finally see a pair...

Take a great adventure to a place, learn the rich history and make your own observation about the place.

Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places.

The most amazing journey on earth is the journey of oneself.

When you travel, there really are no mistakes–just learning opportunities.

While National Geographic magazine had given me a taste of the world, the three-dimensional details of this moment – the tickle of the rain drops, the suck sound of my feet in the mud, the...

Time travels the fastest when it is alone.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Every Inch of the Way is a great page turning adventure which is as close as you can get, without actually saddling up and pedalling yourself into the unknown. It takes real magic to turn...

Don’t take everything for granted, and do not always count on finding everything you need.

Ocean waves gently rock the boat,As if to the tune of a lullaby.She sits still as the boat silently floatsUnder the infinite blue sky.

You must remember that there was virtually no air travel in the early 1930s. Africa was two weeks away from England by boat and it took you about five weeks to get to China. These...

People are raised to believe that happiness is the land to which they are destined to travel. But that belief, which one so easily accepts as true, might just as well be a mirage.

I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.

Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as he would at home; therefore all Americans had to be judged in a...

See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.

You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.

Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.

With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.

I hate traveling with amateurs.

I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it.

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and reach to the sun for nourishment to flourish as the gardens do. Work,...

Đ y không phải là một cuốn sách du lịch mà là một cuốn sách tình yêu.Tôi không mua vé máy bay khi tôi thất tình; tôi chỉ mua vé khi giá vé rẻ.Thực ra,...

But that’s the wonderful thing about foreign travel, suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most basic sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross...

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

Every night we stopped in a cabin where wood had been stacked, matches left, and canned goods laid out for the chance traveler. All the unknown host received in return was a scribbled note giving...

Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen.

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star...

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but...

may came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.

the sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a sun too fierce to work under and a darkness filled with evil spirits – love was an...

I went to Africa to work. Finding myself and falling in love were not items on the agenda. Those were the stuff of daydreams, borne of long, icy Canadian winters. At age 30, I felt...

Durch die Eisenbahn wird Raum getötet, und es bleibt nur noch die Zeit übrig.

David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in...

Venice appeared to me as in a recurring dream, a place once visited and now fixed in memory like images on a photographer’s plates so that my return was akin to turning the leaves of...

Like flowers blooming through cement,we, too, can grow beyond our cracks.

If you built the box, you can also break it down.

They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.

There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

A vida é igual em toda a parte e o que é necessário é a gente ser a gente.