Travel Quotes

Travel breaks you out of your routine and into someone else's world. These quotes capture the thrill of departure, the discomfort of unfamiliarity, the joy of discovery, and the way coming home feels different after you have seen how other people live.

“To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.”

John Muir

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“Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.”

David Attenborough

“Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.”

Dan Lipinski

“I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.”

Hillary Clinton

“When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.”

Arne Jacobsen

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.”

Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.”

Nicholas D. Kristof

“Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”

Thomas Fuller

“Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.”

Chief Joseph

“I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.”

June Jordan

“To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.”

Charles Horton Cooley

“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.”

Henry Adams

“The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.”

Neil Armstrong

“When I haven't been working I've tried to travel a lot.”

Emma Watson

“Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.”

Janet Napolitano

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