If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.
Anthony BourdainTags: travel
And suddenly first one and then another began to sing as they played, deep-throated singing of the dwarves in the deep places of their ancient homes; and this is like a fragment of their song, if it can be like their song without their music. [...]As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves. Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick. He looked out of the window. The stars were out in a dark sky above the trees. He thought of the jewels of the dwarves shining in dark caverns. Suddenly in the wood beyond The Water a flame leapt up - probably somebody lighting a wood-fire-and he thought of plundering dragons settling on his quiet Hill and kindling it all to flames. He shuddered; and very quickly he was plain Mr. Baggins of Bag-End, Under-Hill, again. He got up trembling.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: adventure travel magic songs
There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that
Jonathan Safran Foer...[I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way.
John MandevilleShe had learned to live light because life itself could be heavy enough.
Jackson BurnettTags: travel attitude life-philosophy jackson-burnett the-past-never-ends light-vs-heavy
We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.
Mark TwainTags: travel pride showing-off
In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods--the long-distance phone call, the telegram--were marked "For Emergency Use Only." So my parents waved me off into the unknown, and their news bulletins about me would have been restricted to "Yes, he's arrived safely,"and "Last time we heard he was in Oregon," and "We expect him back in a few weeks." I'm not saying this was necessarily better, let alone more character-forming; just that in my case it probably helped not to have my parents a button's touch away, spilling out anxieties and long-range weather forecasts, warning me against floods, epidemics and psychos who preyed on backpackers.
Julian BarnesTags: technology travel parents-and-children postcards
Nulla dietro di me, tutto avanti, è sempre così sulla strada...
Jack KerouacTags: travel
C'è sempre qualcosa di più, un po' più in là... non finisce mai.
Jack KerouacTags: travel life-lessons travelling
- Dobbiamo andare e non fermarci finché non siamo arrivati.
- Dove andiamo?
- Non lo so, ma dobbiamo andare.
Tags: travel life-lessons travelling
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