 The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.
– Edward Abbey (1927-1989) |
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Chinua Achebe – The world is like a mask dancing
 The world is like a mask dancing. If you want to see it well you do not stand in one place.
– Chinua Achebe (1930 -) |
Charles Dickens – Every traveler has a home
 Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
– Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
Laozi / Lao-Tzu – A good traveler
 A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
– Laozi / Lao-Tzu (604 BC-531 BC) |
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Not much an advocate for traveling
 I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home? I have been quoted as saying captious things about travel; but I mean to do justice. …. He that does not fill a place at home, cannot abroad. He only goes there to hide his insignificance in a larger crowd.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
