Traveler Quotes
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A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies.
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The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)
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More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.
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The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
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Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
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A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.
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Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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If we build something great, like we have at Travelers Group so far, a whole host of people benefit.
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The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
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If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.
