Travels, Journeys, Explorations

 Journeys, Travels, Explorations

"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things

may be, to see them as they are."
- Samuel Johnson""

"The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as once pleases."
- William Hazlitt

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.”
– Seneca

“Take only memories, leave only footprints.”
– Chief Seattle

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.”
– John Steinbeck

"The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure to unknown lands."
-  Richard Burton

"The more you explore, the more you find that needs exploring.
- Anonymous

"We go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure."
- Henry David Thoreau

"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

“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

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“He who would travel happily must travel light.”
– Antoine de St. Exupery

"Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter."
- Izaac Walton

“To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”
– Freya Stark

"Traveling─it leaves you speechless, then it turns you into a storyteller."
-  Ibn Battuta

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”
– Saint Augustine

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
– Henry Miller

 “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.”
- Paulo Coelho

 “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more
fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
– Ray Bradbury

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

"One man's exploration is another man's home ground."
- Anonymous

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart.
But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your
consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave
something good behind.”
– Anthony Bourdain

“With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.”
– Sandra Lake

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
– Neale Donald Walsch

 

I read "The Oregon Trail: An American Saga" By David Dary, Oxford University, 2004, index, 414 pages. 
A detailed accounting of the over 350,000 people who traveled from the Missouri River to Oregon and California from 1850-1869 via wagons on the Oregon Trail.  Talk about "Journeys!" 

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