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• The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St. Augustine
  
  

• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
  
  

• I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full. ~Lord Dunsany
  
  

• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu
  
  

• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing." ~Daniel J. Boorstin
  
  
• 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.
  ~T.S. Eliot, 1943
  
  
• People travel to wonder at the height of mountains,
  at the huge waves of the sea,
  at the long courses of rivers,
  at the vast compass of the ocean,
  at the circular motion of the stars;
  And they pass by themselves without wondering.
  ~St. Augustine
  
  
• You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person. ~Alec Waugh
  
  
• Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
  
  
• How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - like rags and shreds of your very life. ~Katherine Mansfield
  
  
• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882; US transcendentalist writer, minister & activist