Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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.

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

I love being on the road. I sit at home too long, and I start to go a bit stir crazy.

I've lived in England, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany in the '80s. I don't like being settled. It's not really healthy.

Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

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

Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.

Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.

Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.

I'm more obsessed with the idea of vacation than any one particular vacation spot. I love to explore new places and cultures.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

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.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should.

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

I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

I remember the first time I went to Europe, I had someone take a picture of me there, so I could really see myself there. There's a sense of being outside yourself, and I think celebrity allows us that too, to be outside ourselves.

I think I'll always flutter all over. I'd like to live in different parts of the world - I'd love to live in Tuscany for a few months.

So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.