diego-jimenez-A-NVHPka9Rk-unsplash.jpg

Quotes for the Road

Don’t just move your feet, move your mind, move your heart!

Some more insight and inspiration … 

“Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.” — Dalai Lama

“You lose sight of things…and when you travel, everything balances out.” — Daranna Gidel

“A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi

“When overseas, you learn more about your own country than you do the place you’re visiting.” — Clint Borgen

“It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.” — Anthony Bourdain

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”  — Mary Ritter Beard

“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.” — John Muir

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” — Andre Gide

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” — Lin Yutang

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustave Flaubert

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd

“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

“The mountains are calling, and I must go.” ― John Muir

“From California to the New York Island, this land was made for you and me.” ― Woody Guthrie

“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, rejoice, for your soul is alive.” ― Eleanora Duse

“Spring is nature's way of saying ‘let's party!’” ― Robin Williams

“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” ― Jacques-Yves Cousteau

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery — air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.'” ― Sylvia Plath

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“There is no exquisite beauty…without some strangeness in the proportion.” ― Edgar Allen Poe

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”― Margaret Atwood

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.” ― William Shakespeare

“The earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“By discovering nature, you discover yourself.” — Maxime Lagacé