Will Rogers Quotes

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.

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.

Long walks force a certain meditative awareness. You're not moving so fast that you miss the world's details passing by - in fact, you can stop to inspect something that might catch your eye.

When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.

If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before.

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

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.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

I relax by looking at things and reading about things. Even the simplest thing can reveal a great deal about the world around us. It relaxes me greatly to sit back with my feet up and look around my study at the everyday things that surround me.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

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

The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.

I've tried to be open to what's going on and paying close attention, not letting things that inspire me to pass me by.

Taking time to do something slower than you normally would is a privilege that should not be ignored.

The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing.

There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes

You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is a very big world and there are many many things you could miss if you are not careful. There are remarkable things all the time, right in front of us, but our eyes have like the clouds over the sun and our lives are paler and poorer if we do not see them for what they are. If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

I've had many years to consider what I would like to see about a particular place. I don't waste any time and I enjoy it.