#wander

He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#wanderlust #dreams

When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs. ↗

— George Lloyd

#big stuff #give #i #old #park

and we laugh and laugh and all I know is at this moment I feel like I can do anything I want and be anyone I want and go anywhere on the globe and still call it home ↗

— Kirsten Smith

#happiness #laughter #wanderlust #home

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#distant #familiar #foreign #home #hospitality

Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#death #moving #wandering #death

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#education

all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something. ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#wanderlust #life

I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#attention #buy #catches #go #i

He made the world to be a grassy road Before her wandering feet. ↗

— W. B. Yeates

#the-rose-of-the-world #wandering #love

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#glitter #gold #lost #poetry #roots