“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
Travel quotes are a dose of inspiration when you’re thinking about escaping the 9-5 and planning your next adventure. Here are some of our favourite travel quotes to inspire you to get out and explore the world!
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wanderlust Inspiration
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru
Why we Travel
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
“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.” – GK Chesterton
How Travel Changes Us
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou
How to Travel
“He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
“To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.” – Sam Keen
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.” – John Muir