Traveller Quotes

“Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.”

“Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.”

“A traveller moves among real people in their own milieu and learns from them, soaking up their wisdom and philosophy, their way of being in the world. A tourist simply hops from one tourist highpoint to another, skimming across the surface, cramming in quantity rather than quality, and comes away with his soul and imagination unchanged, untouched by the wonder of a life lived differently.”

“Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.”

“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.”

“Travelling becomes an excellent teacher if the traveller becomes an excellent student!”

“The most amazing travellers were to humble to write about it”

“Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!”

“It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.”

“I have travelled a good deal in Concord.”