Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Quote: Lawrence MIllman ...
"Travel is the realm of the improbable adventure, the quick fix, the ship passing in the night. It entitles you to meet interesting people, whom you would never meet, even if you laid traps or advertised for them. Not only do you meet them, but also unmeet them, all in the space of, it often seems, a mere compacted evening. As there is so little time, bodies in motion tend to drop their guard and immediatly get on with their stories. Then the proverbial ships part, each to its destination, never again to brush each other's wake."
-- from Last Places: A Journey in the North, 2000
Monday, September 28, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Quote: J.R.R. Tolkein ...
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."
-- from The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
Quote: Sir Richard Burton ...
"One of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Home, man feels once more happy. The blood flows with the fast circulation of youth, excitement gives a new vigour to the muscles, and a sense of sudden freedom adds an inch to the stature."
-- journal entry, December 2, 1856, en route to Zanzibar
-- journal entry, December 2, 1856, en route to Zanzibar
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Quote: Amelia Edwards ...
"Going from point to point in other countries, one follows a thin line of road, railway, or river, leaving wide tracts unexplored on either side."
-- from A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, 1876
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Quote: Douglas Adams ...
"Arthur Dent had been in some hell holes in his life, but he had never before seen a spaceport that had a sign saying "Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here."
--from Mostly Harmless, 1992
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Quote: Mary Shelley ...
"But he found that a traveler's life is one that includes much pain amid its enjoyments. His feelings are forever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties."
-- from Frankenstein, 1818
Friday, September 18, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Quote: Alfred, Lord Tennyson ...
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy'd
Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when
Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea: I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honour'd of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
-- from "Ulysses," 1833
Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy'd
Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when
Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea: I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honour'd of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
-- from "Ulysses," 1833
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Quote: Joseph Dispenza ...
“Once we begin to see travel as an inner journey, it is possible to turn every trip we take into a spiritual practice—a hero’s adventure that enlivens our hearts and enlarges our souls. Travel becomes a spiritual experience for us when we are conscious at every moment that our physical transportation from place to place has a metaphysical counterpart. Understanding that, the road takes us inexorably to an encounter with the ‘stranger’ at the heart of the journey—the transformed self.”
-- from The Way of the Traveler, 1999
-- from The Way of the Traveler, 1999
Monday, September 14, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Quote: Henry David Thoreau ...
"Above all, as I have implied, the man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off."
-- from Walden, 1854
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Quote: John Muir ...
“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.”
-- from a letter to his wife, July 1888.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Quote: Mark Twain ...
"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."
from Tom Sawyer Abroad, 1894
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
Quote: Ursula K. Le Guin ...
"It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
-- from Left Hand of Darkness, 1969
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Quote: Eudora Welty ...
"Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it."
-- from One Writer's Beginnings, 1983
Friday, September 4, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Quote: Sinclair Lewis ...
Actually, most of those afflicted with the habit of traveling merely lie about its pleasures and profits. They do not travel to see anything, but to get away from themselves, which they never do, and away from rowing with their relatives--only to find new relatives with whom to row. They travel to escape thinking, to have something to do, just as they might play solitaire, work cross-word puzzles, look at the cinema, or busy themselves with any other dreadful activity.
-- from Dodsworth, 1929
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Quote: Bruce Chatwin ...
"I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in a sandstorm in the Western Sahara, I understood Muhammed's dictum, 'A journey is a fragment of Hell.'"
-- from The Songlines, 1986
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