Mem Fox Quotes

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

I always say the diversity, and culture is the one thing I love the most about the U.S. How you can travel across one borderline and you end up with this whole new set of people that I find super-interesting and great on tour.

We're so immersed in ourselves at home, but when you're travelling, it's important to be open.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

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.

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.

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.

The growth of purposeful travel is a good thing. It can have a positive impact. We should continue to experiment and move along this line.

I like to travel and explore new places and simply love trying new cuisines.

People are obviously very interested in travel, including travel in Britain.

I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.

Places where one can experience some of that separation from the world of the familiar, to defamiliarize ourselves with what we take for granted and enter into the ebb and flow of another culture, it certainly is one of the more valuable things that we do as human beings.

Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them.

Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't.

I don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle.

I've been to Asia, but I'd love to go to Thailand. I'd love to go to some rural areas in China.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.