Lately, I’ve been gathering some nice “Local Travel Quotes”. I’m sure there must be many more, so invite you to share them!
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G.K. Chesterton
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. “ – George Bernard Shaw
“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. “ – G.K. Chesterton
“Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury
“Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley
“People don’t take trips – trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
Do you know any nice Local Travel quotes, or do you have one yourself? Please let me know in the comments!
(Thanks to Examiner and Matador)
Few of our favourites!
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – Hilaire Belloc
“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher Hershey
Posted by Kate | April 7, 2011, 10:06 amIt’s too long to quote here, but the whole reason for travelling (both literall and metaphorical) has been wonderfully described by Konstantin P. Kavafis in his poem “Ithaka”: http://cavafis.compupress.gr/kave_17b.htm
Posted by Dutchie88 | April 10, 2011, 8:05 am“There’s no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing.” – Alfred Wainwright
“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary
“”In every walk with nature one receives more than he seeks.” – John Muir
Posted by Dutchie88 | April 10, 2011, 8:11 amGREAT quotes 🙂
http://matadornetwork.com/bnt/2008/03/07/50-most-inspiring-travel-quotes-of-all-time/
Posted by shellie_wallace | April 26, 2011, 6:10 am