"A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey...
...And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly
And the villages dirty and charging high prices..."

from "Journey of the Magi" by T.S. Eliot

Sorry, I just couldn't help myself!

Good one, Peg! :)

On a less cynical note,from Tennyson:

I cannot rest from travel;I will drink
Life to the lees.

Oh, that last one was from Tennyson's poem "Ulysses." Now there was a traveler!

Tourism will destroy what it is looking for by finding it.

This is a poem rather than a quote, but I thought it was fitting here. It's a favorite of mine.

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

And it's by one of our locals, Robert Frost.

I love that poem by Frost!

Here is one that someone from this forum shared with me recently. I love it, too:

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lc, I "ädopted" that on another forum once but wrote it:
You Can't find beauty unless you bring it with you.
And I wrote, you can't be loved unless you are loveable.

Yes, cigalechanta! If only more people would realize the truth of both of those expressions!

No matter where you go, there you are.

- Buckaroo Banzai

:-)

Lee Ann

Not all who wander are lost.

J.R.R. Tolkein

"He who is tired of London, is tired of life"

"High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth/
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;/
Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds,--and done a hundred things/
You have not dreamed of wheeled and soared and swung/
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,/
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung/
My eager craft through footless falls of air.../
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue/
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace/
Where never lark, nor eer eagle flew--/
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod/
The high, untrespassed sanctity of space,/
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

((I))

I met a lot of people when I travelled. I even encountered myself.

James Baldwin

To not ever travel is to only read the first page of a book.

Saint Augustin

'Take only photographs, leave only footprints'

"You can't get there from here"

Due to the beautiful ceilings in many churches, chateau and the like, ours is:

"always look UP!"

From "The Yearling"

"I don't know how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to."