Wanting to travel reflects a positive attitude. You want to see, to grow in experience,
and presumably to become more whole as a human being. Vagabonding takes this a step further: It promotes the chances of sustaining and strengthening this positive attitude.
As a vagabond, you begin to face your fears now and then instead of continuously
sidestepping them in the name of convenience. You build an attitude that makes life more rewarding, which in turn makes it easier to keep doing it. It’s called positive feedback, and it works.
—ED BURYN, Vagabonding in Europe and Africa
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
Travel leads us to the realisation that what connects us is far more astonishing than what separates us. We are further apart than we think and closer than we imagine. A. A. Gill
Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. Seneca
Travel is a form of autobiography. This book is not about Africa – this book is, I suppose, about me. Paul Theroux
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. Aldous Huxley
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. James Michener
For me the best sort of travel always involves a degree of trespass. The risk is both a challenge and an invitation. Paul Theroux
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. Lawrence Durrell
The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. William Moon
We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. John Steinbeck
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. St Augustin
In travelling to a truly foreign place, we inevitable travel to moods and states of mind and hidden inward passages that we’d otherwise seldom have cause to visit. Pico Iyer
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. Martin Buber
I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city. Bill Bryson
I realized that many of the most important changes in my life had come about because of my travel experiences. Michael Crichton
No computer can substitute for experience on the ground, the traveler’s raw intimacy with the sensuous texture of a place: its smells and tastes, its street life and conversations. Colin Thubron
What gives value to the travel is fear. Albert Camus
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is smelling it. T.S. Eliot
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Andre Gide
Adventures do occur, but not punctually. E.M. Forster
Even disasters – there are always disasters – can be turned into adventures. Marilyn French
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. Gustave Flaubert
The dirty secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong. Tim Cahill
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. Lao Tzu
The first sight of a great city from the sea is big medicine, powerful magic, unforgettable. Eric Newby
I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for traveling? Freya Stark
A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles. Tim Cahill
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. Robert Louis Stevenson
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. Thomas Fuller
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. John Shedd
What I have found though, is that the more I travel the less certain I am of anything. The more I see, the less I know. A. Gill
If you find yourself heading in the opposite direction to most of the people around you it’s usually a sign you’re going a more interesting way. Dan Kieran
Not all those who wander are lost. JR Tolkien
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. Michael Palin
Vagabonding is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. Rolf Potts
We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis. Eduard Abbey (Desert Solitaire)
A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea. . . . Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don’t go right now, we’re never going to do it. And we’ll be
haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves
gravely. Tim Cahill (Exotic places made me do it)
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