Pico Iyer Quotes

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

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

I love travelling and use my time abroad to be inspired.

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

I love to travel. I'm a curious person.

I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.

I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.

The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.

I think it's part of my personality - I love to travel; I love different cultures and philosophies and perspectives on things.

I think once you start traveling, you don't stop.

The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel.

Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.

When I left school, I went backpacking around the world for two years.

I would die if I had to be confined. I don't want to feel that I'm missing out on experiencing as much as I can. For me, experiencing is knowing people all over the world and being able to photograph.

If I don't travel, if I stay at home for a week, I would go out of my mind. That is just the way I am. I love to be on the move, and I am fortunate that I have friends all over the world.

Why not travel, why not see the rest of the world, why not experience life? It's beautiful! Phenomenal!

Everything I've ever done has been because of travel. Right from leaving Australia to where I am today - it's all been about exchanging different points of view. The most important lesson I've learnt is to look and listen to what's happening around you.

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

Travelling is a key part of my life. It keeps me inspired, takes me to new places, introduces me to new sounds, and allows me to explore new environments and soundscapes.

Travel is a passion. I intend seeing the world.

I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?

Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind ... I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.