Walt Whitman Quotes, Nature Quotes, Travel Quotes

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

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To shut your eyes is to travel.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Travel Quotes

I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

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Tags : Alan Davies Quotes , Travel Quotes , Journey Quotes

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Travel Quotes , Hate Quotes

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Life Quotes , Travel Quotes

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

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Tags : A. J. Liebling Quotes , Travel Quotes , Food Quotes

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

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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 to star.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Travel Quotes , Stars Quotes

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

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Tags : Alan Dean Foster Quotes , Travel Quotes , Writing Quotes

Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Travel Quotes , Typical Quotes

Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Travel Quotes , Horse Quotes

A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Travel Quotes , Information Quotes

I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Dog Quotes , Travel Quotes

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Travel Quotes

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Travel Quotes , Sky Quotes

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Time Quotes , Travel Quotes

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Travel Quotes , Moving Quotes

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Travel Quotes