Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that solaces and delights.

And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

I love travelling. I love cultures.

I like new experiences. It's one of the reasons I went to China.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Good travel books, like travel itself, open the door to new worlds. In the strongest works the author's vision becomes our own, especially if his or her subject is a distant destination.

I love traveling. I've been doing it since I was 16.

I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me.

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

Every age is an unknown country.

To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.

Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.

One must travel, to learn.

Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey.

A map is not a journey.

Tourists see, and travelers seek.

Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.