Tove Jansson Quotes

I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

travel is compost for the mind

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

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

I actively pursue experiences that are unlike any others that I've experienced and cultures that I don't know and unfamiliar places and unfamiliar history and things like that.

If you're in a small town somewhere and you can go and visit Paris, you can go to the top of Everest, that's just cool. It's worth it because you become more educated in something.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Traveling is an experience that you can always carry with you. It makes the world come together more so we understand each other better.

Getting to see new places, their culture, and getting away from what I am used to is so rewarding.

What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by other tourists? To eat unfamiliar food chosen from unintelligible menus? To earn frequent-flier miles? No. It's to glimpse what life is like somewhere else.

Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.

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

One must travel, to learn.

Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do.

At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.

Much as I love the northeast, I didn't want to spend my life there. I wanted to experiment. Savour everything you can while you're here! Touring, seeing the world... That in itself gives you a different perspective.

What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

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.

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.

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