Thoughts on travel

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.
—Martin Buber



The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
—Marcel Proust

The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
—Gilbert K Chesterton

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson

Travelling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
—Ibn Battuta



The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine


Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space has ceased.
—John Steinbeck


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.
—Mark Twain

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