Ella Maillart Quotes
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The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.
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Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
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You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
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We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.
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Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.
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One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
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Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.
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When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.
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I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.
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Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
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The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
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The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
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Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
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One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.