#travel

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#been #before #circumstances #dull #fabulous

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond. ↗

— Jan Myrdal

#dimension #longing #third #traveling

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#chance #contact #elected #fair #fair chance

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by. ↗

— Cynthia Ozick

#implicit #seeing #traveling

Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel. ↗

— Rebecca Lobo

#i #ridiculous #stuff #travel

Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than usual. it was often on trpis that he thought most clearly, and made the decisions that he could not reach when he was stationary. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#life

By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast puddles where the drains where unable to cope with the volume of water. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#travel #science

The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned. ↗

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

#travel #travel-writing #life

I know I am planning to visit a "land" that is not entirely foreign, only foreign to me. As an adventurer, I am on a journey that I believe will last me my whole life. A new relationship, discovery, or awareness excites me. ↗

— Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem

#relationships #travel #travel-writing #life

If I could somehow know the future, then now should not be like this time. ↗

— Toba Beta

#future #life #past #present #time-travel