"The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly."
-- from Jonathan Livingston Seagull, 1970
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Quote: August Strindberg ...
"Oh, no matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car."
-- from Miss Julie, 1888
-- from Miss Julie, 1888
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Quote: Jack Kerouac ...
"All of life is a foreign country."
-- from a letter to a friend, June 24, 1949
-- from a letter to a friend, June 24, 1949
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Quote: Bruce Chatwin ...
"I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god."
-- from In Patagonia, 1977
-- from In Patagonia, 1977
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Quote: Paul Theroux ...
“True travel is launching oneself into the unknown. There is no excuse for it except that one offers oneself in a spirit of experiment.”
-- from "Paddling to Plymouth," in Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings, 2001
-- from "Paddling to Plymouth," in Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings, 2001
Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Quote: Alice Meynell ...
"The spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. It is recalled all a lifetime, having been perceived a week, and is not scattered but abides, one living body of remembrance."
-- from The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays, 1898
-- from The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays, 1898
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Quote: Daniel J. Boorstin ...
"The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all."
-- from The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America, 1962
-- from The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America, 1962
Monday, February 15, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Quote: Charles Baudelaire ...
“For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.”
-- from The Painter of Modern Life, 1863
-- from The Painter of Modern Life, 1863
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Quote: Dave Barry ...
"Remember the Old Traveler’s Saying: 'You may lose your money and your health and your sanity and some important organs, but they can't take away your travel memories unless they hit you hard on the head.'"
-- from Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need, 1992
-- from Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need, 1992
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Quote: Ernest Hemingway ...
"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up."
-- from a letter to Harvey Breit, 1950
-- from a letter to Harvey Breit, 1950
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Quote: Martha Gellhorn ...
"You define your own horror journey, according to your taste. My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. Add discomfort, fatigue, strain in large amounts to get the purest-quality horror, but the kernel is boredom. I offer that as a universal test of travel; boredom, called by any other name, is why you yearn for the first available transport out. But what bores whom?† ... The threshold of boredom must be like the threshold of pain, different in all of us."
-- from Travels with Myself and Another, 1978
-- from Travels with Myself and Another, 1978
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Quote: Thomas Coryat ...
"Of all the pleasures in the world, travel is, in my opinion, the sweetest and most delightful."
-- from Coryat's Crudities: Hastily Gobled Up in Five Moneths' Travels, 1611
-- from Coryat's Crudities: Hastily Gobled Up in Five Moneths' Travels, 1611
Friday, February 5, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Quote: Dennis Scott ...
To travel
is to return
to strangers.
-- quoted in Breaklight: An Anthology of Caribbean Poetry, 1971
is to return
to strangers.
-- quoted in Breaklight: An Anthology of Caribbean Poetry, 1971
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Quote: Robert Louis Stevenson ...
"Wealth I seek not; hope nor love,
Not a friend to know me;
All I seek, the heaven above
And the road below me.
-- from "The Vagabond," in Songs of Travel, 1895
Not a friend to know me;
All I seek, the heaven above
And the road below me.
-- from "The Vagabond," in Songs of Travel, 1895
Monday, February 1, 2010
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