Hal Borland Quotes

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.

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.

When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's, or at least with historical, eyes; you pause on the first bridge, where an ordinary walk hardly commences, and begin to observe and moralize like a traveler. It is worth the while to see your native village thus sometimes, as if you were a traveler passing through it, commenting on your neighbors as strangers.

I did some traveling as an amateur and always loved the different places I saw.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

I admire traveling; I appreciate it a lot.

To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you could really tell a full story. What a voyage of discovery it was.

I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they've left me.

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea. Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.

A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

To travel is to live.

Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.

You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.

Tourists see, and travelers seek.

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.