-- from Along the Road, 1925
Friday, July 31, 2009
Quote: Aldous Huxley ...
“We read and travel, not that we may broaden and enrich our minds, but that we may pleasantly forget that we exist. We love reading and travelling because they are most delightful of all that may substitutes for thought.”
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Quote: William Hazlitt ...
"The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do, just as one pleases. We go a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others."
-- from "On Going On A Journey," 1822
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Quote: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ...
"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."
-- from Cat's Cradle, 1963
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Quote: Susan Sontag ...
"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."
-- from "Unguided Tour," 1977
Friday, July 24, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Quote: C.P. Cavafy ...
Pray that the road is long.
That the summer mornings are many, when,
with such pleasure, with such joy
you will enter ports seen for the first time;
stop at Phoenician markets,
and purchase fine merchandise,
mother-of-pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
and sensual perfumes of all kinds,
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
visit many Egyptian cities,
to learn and learn from scholars.
-- from "Ithaca," 1911
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Quote: Herman Melville ...
"It is not down in any map; true places never are."
-- from Moby Dick, 1851
-- from Moby Dick, 1851
Monday, July 20, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Quote: Mark Twain ...
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.
-- from The Innocents Abroad, 1869
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Quote: Noël Coward ...
Why do the wrong people travel?
Please do not think that I criticize or cavil
At a genuine urge to roam,
But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel
When the right people stay at home?
-- from "Why Do The Wrong People Travel," Sail Away, 1961
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Quote: Jeff Greenwald ...
"There are deeper reasons to travel -- itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there."
-- from Shopping for Buddhas, 1996
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Quote: Paul Bowles ...
"[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking."
-- from The Sheltering Sky, 1949
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Saba, Netherlands Antilles ...
September 1996. Climbing to the highest point in the Kingdom of the Netherlands ...
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Quote: T.S. Elliott ...
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-- from "Little Gidding," Four Quartets, 1942
Friday, July 10, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Quote: Blaise Pascal ...
"Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death."
-- from Pensées, 1657-1662
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Quote: Francis Bacon ...
"When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him."
-- from Essays, 1597-1625
Monday, July 6, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Quote: John Steinbeck ...
Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blow-in-the-glass bum relax and go along with it. Only when do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. I feel better now, having said this, although only those who have experienced it will understand.
-- from Travels with Charley: In Search of America, 1962
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Friday, July 3, 2009
Quote: Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
"Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to-morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them."
-- from "The Over-Soul," 1841
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Placencia, Belize ...
November 2004. My favorite Adirondack chair, on a gorgeous Caribbean beach ...
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Welcome ...
Welcome to the "daily wanderlust" blog! This project is an experiment, and likely to be a work in progress for a while ... but my plan is to give you a quick post a day, with something that evokes the nature and joy of travel. We'll start with some of my favorite travel quotes, and photos from some of my trips ... and later adding snippets of travelogues and perhaps some other things. All the contemporary photos will be mine, as will the text that's not otherwise attributed.
We'll get going tomorrow morning. Feel free to comment and ask questions ... and I hope you enjoy!
(Oh, and also: you might want to check out my other blog, daily montana, which features a post a day about the Big Sky Country.)
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