A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation

To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you’re likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you’re likely not to forget it. But, to live through a struggle, you’ll understand...

As millions discover the wonders of Hong Kong and China – one of the most rapidly growing travel destinations in the world – the future is indeed bright.

Seeing pictures of other places around the world makes me feel more important. Reminds me, even though life is short, there’s so much to do.

If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in...

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit…

Travel does this: it creates space that allows thoughts and memories to intrude and assert themselves with impunity. Smells and sights, the quality of light, the honk of a horn — can all act as...

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

It takes time to see the desert; you have to keep looking at it. When you’ve looked long neough, you realise the blank wastes of sand and rock are teemming with life. Just as you...

I Travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine

[…] I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession.”As sanitary engineer?”No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries in the world.

… to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

I’d learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I’d learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.

This visit has compacted the court’s quarrels and intrigues, trapped them in the small space within the town’s walls. The travelers have become as intimate with each other as cards in a pack: contiguous, but...

And my mother, whose radius of travel was short, tied the letters with ribbon and kept them in her desk, When you get the chance, she said to me, “go.

I read; I travel; I become

The answer is neither job, nor paycheck; it is authentic, holistic work born from states of awareness and being. Through the coalescence of joy, wonder, enthusiasm, appreciation, experimentation, perpetual curiosity, exploring new avenues, welcoming surprise...

From the depths of your well, tap your will.

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

For this I weep all my daysand throughout my lifetime grievethat I swam from my own landsand came from familiar lands towards these strange doors to these foreign gates.

This is just enough.

It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

I travel by foot. It’s like a wheelchair in a microwave it’s so easy to camel. I sleep on a pillow made of coffee, and I’d ask you to turn out the light when you’re...

Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul.

The secret to youth is to fill your mind with beauty! Amen

Solen er forlængst dukket under synsranden, fjældene er blit hvitlig grønne, de ser ut i sin fjærnhet og i sin vælde som en verden for sig selv.

Wherever you travel to, there is your home.

In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it’s reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.

I wanted, I told her, to lie under the stars and smell different breezes. I wanted to drink different waters, feel different heats. Stand with my comrades atop the ruin of old ideas. Plant my...

I climbed aboard a Greyhound bus and rode it to New York without telling anyone, without so much as a goodbye. What was I thinking? I wasn’t. I was young and stupid and broken. I...

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

It was such ecstacy to dream, and dream – till you got a bite.A scorpion bite. Then the first duty was to get up out of the grass and kill the scorpion; and the next...

There’s something profoundly intense and intoxicating about friendship found en route. It’s the bond that arises from being thrust into uncomfortable circumstances, and the vulnerability of trusting others to navigate those situations. It’s the exhilaration...

My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the...

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don’t know and trusting them with your life.

One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone.

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler,...

Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will...

That’s because true travel, the kind with no predetermined end, is one of the most selfish endeavors we can possibly undertake-an act in which we focus solely on our own fulfillment, with little regard to...

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

The trip doesn’t exist that can set you beyond the reach of cravings, fits of temper, or fears … so long as you carry the sources of your troubles about with you, those troubles will...

Is China a drug? Like any drug, it depends entirely on the user’s own state of mind. If we’re making metaphors, for old China hands I’d imagine their time here draws parallels with the soaring...

The biggest adjustment is the lifestyle and the travel. It’s not what we’re used to or what you expect at the major-league level. Especially for a manager who was in the minor leagues for a...

I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.”(Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)

Travelers prove their lack of education if they make fun of the customs and values of their hosts, and the qualities that do a person honour are many and varied.

With thousands of roads before us that lead nowhere, going in circles. There really are only two roads we will either travel, one going to heaven, or the other to hell.

One very good way to invite stares of disapproval in Japan is to walk and eat at the same time.

Yuvali struggled to put one foot in front of the other. The long leaves of a purple-flowered bush raked her forehead. The flower emerged from bulbous green tubes, unfolding toward the sun. The petals radiated...