John Green Quotes

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

I didn't do very well when I was at school, so my dad gave me the opportunity to travel in Africa. I drove from London to Nairobi. It was incredible.

Travel is a combination of the personal and the emotional.

A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable.

A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

At thirteen, I accompanied my mother to the Hawaiian Islands. There, for the first time, I saw the wonder of a steamship and the vastness of the ocean. From that time on, I was eager to acquire the knowledge of the West and to fathom the mysteries of nature.

Adventure with a purpose is what we do.

Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.

When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

When I was younger I dreamt of intrepid travel and whenever I had some time off I wanted to scuba dive. Nowadays I'm a bit more relaxed but I'd still like to do an Amazonian trek.

Traveling changes you as a person. If you buy something, it's so different than if you put your money into traveling.

'Quest' is a romantic name for journey, and I think 'fire' is a word that has stimulating connotations for all of us.

It will sound quite weird but I actually watch TLC as I love to travel. It's like sitting in your drawing room and traveling to a new world.

The journey to Burma is etched in my brain, full of all sorts of intense memories.

I titled it 'Alaska' because the song sort of represents everything that happened in my life surrounding a hiking trip I took for a month in Alaska.

The real pleasure of cruising is arriving at a new destination.

There's something attractive about making people temporarily forget their actual age by taking them out of their normal lives so completely. Doesn't travel, by its very nature, strive to do this?

I think the traveling is what drew me into 'The Amazing Race' years ago.

I went to Europe in '52 or '53, and when I came back, I stopped in New York. I remember looking out of a window on a glorious October morning and there was New York. And I thought, 'I'm coming here. This is for me.'

I spent 12 years traveling more than six months a year. I really needed to see the world.

I stay in a lot of hotels, and the best part of travel is getting back to my own bed.

Traveling is an experience that you can always carry with you. It makes the world come together more so we understand each other better.

Getting to see new places, their culture, and getting away from what I am used to is so rewarding.

What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by other tourists? To eat unfamiliar food chosen from unintelligible menus? To earn frequent-flier miles? No. It's to glimpse what life is like somewhere else.