#ravel

[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return ↗

— George Washington

#death #permitted #return #traveler #death

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#country #designed #foreign #foreign country #make

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do... Explore. Dream. Discover. ↗

— Mark Twain

#dreams

A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#art

What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere. ↗

— André Aciman

#monet #my-monet-moment #travel #art

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. ↗

— Freya Stark

#art

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful. ↗

— Justina Chen

#travel #world #beauty

It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete highway painful to behold and turns every distant reflective surface into a little glint of flame. Do you know how sometimes on very fine days the sun will shine with a particular intensity that makes the most mundane objects in the landscape glow with an unusual radiance, so that buildings and structures you normally pass without a glance suddenly become arresting, even beautiful? Well, they seem to have that light in Australia nearly all the time. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#beauty

But the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by destinations. ↗

— Gwyn Thomas

#travel #walking #beauty

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#travel #wanderlust #beauty