Sustainable Travel Quotes

Whether or not I tour forever, I'm not sure. I would love to spend more time living in harmony with nature rather than flying all over the world and contributing to global warming, you know what I mean?

Getting around San Francisco should be convenient, safe, affordable, and sustainable.

I've got two bikes that get me everywhere I need to go. And public transportation.

You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.

I cycle, especially in warm weather. If I have a meeting in town, I would rather cycle than go by car.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

At the end of the day, I live in Silicon Valley and L.A., and for selfish reasons, I'd love to have Los Angeles and San Francisco connected with the Hyperloop.

I love public transportation! Who wants to sit in a car and be angry at other drivers for eight hours? I'd rather sit on a bus or train and read a book.

I've not stopped going on public transport. I love going on it.

I'd rather go by bus.

If I drive my SUV I'm supporting terrorism. Okay, I'll take a taxi, Is that better?

I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.

I like to walk when I can. Otherwise, it's the bus - while we still have them.

I want to go to the Maldives before they sink, but just because it's the most beautiful place on earth.

Hyperloop can improve life dramatically for the 16 million people in the greater Moscow area, cutting their commute to a fraction of what it is today. Our longer term vision is to work with Russia to implement a transformative new Silk Road: a cargo Hyperloop that whisks freight containers from China to Europe in a day.

I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses.

The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a dipper, a spoon, and a fish line, some Indian meal, some salt, and some sugar.... Any one of these things I mean, not all together. I have traveled thus some hundreds of miles without taking any meal in a house, sleeping on the ground when convenient, and found it cheaper, and in many respects more profitable, than staying at home. So that some have inquired why it would not be best to travel always. But I never thought of traveling simply as a means of getting a livelihood.

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.

If I can bicycle, I bicycle.

When I went to the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2002, I decided I wanted to leave my car at home and create an experiment with my own life. I'd only be able to find creative solutions to transportation if I felt the pain of trying to get to downtown at 10 o'clock at night.

My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.

I didn't want to have to call a cab if I went to the supermarket. So I eventually got a bike, just a beach cruiser, and I rode that thing all over town. I rode it everywhere. I rode it in the rain, I rode it as much as I possibly could. Anytime I could afford the independence of the bike, I used the bike.

Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.

If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.

There are millions of people out there who would love to become astronauts, who'd love to go to space - they'd love to look back at this wonderful world from space. That will be the engine that will enable us then to develop spaceships to transport people around the world at tremendous speeds in an environmentally friendly way.