Travel-writing Quotes

It is a place that 'grows upon you' every day. There seems to be always something to find out in it....

That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand.

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller a...

We'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the...

You know that feeling when you first arrive in a new city? However tired you are, however shattered ...

All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everyt...

We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).

If you can overcome the occasional angst, you may have the chance to see some interesting things, pe...

Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to dri...

Once, when I was about ten, we were approaching the ranch after veering north to look at some pastur...

Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savo...

It is high time that I learn to be more careful about hope, a reckless emotion for travelers. The se...

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a go...

And yet on that bench at Jacobacci, I was glad I had left everyone else behind. Although this was a ...

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever capri...

Here the earth, as if to prove its immensity, empties itself. Gertrude Stein said: 'In the United St...

There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and deman...

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a c...