For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world; the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

When you travel, buy a historical book about the place, read to increase your knowledge on the beautiful places of the world.

As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.

Sun and wind and beat of sea,Great lands stretching endlessly...Where be bonds to bind the free?All the world was made for me!

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it.

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.

I want to go to Martha’s Vineyard. I have an aunt named Martha. And an uncle by that name. Neither one is related to me.

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

He might never hear of them again in his life. Or there again, he might. That was the joy of travelling. Anything could happen

When I travel, people say ‘Yet another place in this world’. But I see ‘Another world inside every place I go

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

Travel empties out everything you’ve into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one s own country as a foreign land