A World Of Travel Quotes

best quotes about travelling

The best quotes of a world of travel quotes give a hunch about the importance of place on a journey and even greater magnitude how the traveller relates to visited places.

A new place gives the opportunity to see things in a new aspect and to choose the setting for new experiences. Should we chose so.

On the other hand a place becomes of no significance if we disregard local customs and keep to the same people as at home. The outcome would be a change of setting without reaching out to gain new insights and experiences.

Role of place in a world of travel quotes

If we are always arriving and departing, it isalso true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
--Henry Miller--

The wise man's home is the universe.
--Democrites--

Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs; they see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with travelled bodies, but untravelled minds.
--Charles Caleb Colton--

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
--Dagobert D. Runes--

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
--Robert Louis Stevenson--

Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
--Cesare Pavese--

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
--Aldous Huxley--

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do - especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
--William Least Heat Moon--

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.
--Paul Theroux--

All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
--Paul Fussell--

Take only memories. Leave nothing but footprints.
--Chief Seattle--

Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea. And East and West the wander-thirst that will not let me be.
--Gerald Gauld, Wander-Thirst--

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To leave is to die a little, to die to what we love. We leave behind a bit of ourselves wherever we have been.
--Edmond Haraucourt, Choix de Poesies--

Only that travelling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
--Henry David Thoreau, Journal--

Travelling is almost like talking with men of other centuries.
--René Descartes--

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.
--Bill Bryson--

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
--James Michener--

I should like to spend the whole of my in life travelling abroad, if Icould anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.
--William Hazlitt--

Traditional spiritual guides for travellers

In New Zealand many follow the custom of our native people the Maori people and wear pendants. Beautifully crafted greenstone jewellery or bone carvings as personal adornments for guidance and protection. Motifs of ocean mammals , and the Hei Matau meaning fish hook are chosen by traveller.

At times when history was vocally transmitted they held the stories of their prepossessors, and therefore increased in spiritual value with their triumphs. 

Hei Matau, natural

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