We Travel To Learn

“We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own” – Maria Mitchell

To Travel Beyond Our World

“To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever” – Steven J. Carroll

Economists Travel On Infrastructure

“You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure” – Margaret Thatcher

The Chief Advantage Of Travel

“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

Lifeblood Of Many States Around The Country

“The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country” – Mark Foley

Places On The Edges Of The Imagination

“I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps, the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste […]

Wanted To Sail Upon Your Waters, Since I Was Three Feet Tall

“Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call. Wanted to sail upon your waters, since I was three feet tall. You’ve seen it all, you’ve seen it all. Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam. In your belly, you hold the treasure that few have ever seen, most of them dreams, most of them dreams” – Jimmy Bufffet (A Pirate Looks at Forty)

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Better Than To Have Arrived

“To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived” – Robert Louis Stevenson

Elsewhere Is A Negative Mirror

“Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveller recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have” – Italo Calvino

I Will See All The Peoples And All The Countries In The World

“I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession. ‘As sanitary engineer?’ No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries in the world” – Bruce Chatwin