The LORD went in front of them in a pillar of cloud by day, to lead them along the way, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give ...them light, so that they might travel by day and by night. Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would tr...avel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Vices may be said to await us along the course of our lives like hosts with whom we lodge successively on a journey; and I doubt t...hat experience would cause us to avoid them, if we could travel the same road twice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coast ... and tell me if it looks li...ke a discovered and settled country, and not rather, for the most part, like a desolate island, and No-Man's Land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your method of traveling, especially,--to live along the road, citizens of the world, without haste or petty plans,--I have often ...proposed this to my dreams, and still do. But the fact is, I cannot so decidedly postpone exploring the Farther Indies, which are to be reached, you know, by other routes and other methods of travel. I mean that I constantly return from every external enterprise with disgust, to fresh faith in a kind of Brahminical, Artesian, Inner Temple life. All my experience, as yours probably, proves only this reality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hard by the lilied Nile I saw A duskish river dragon stretched along.... The brown habergeon of his limbs enamelled With sanguine alamandines and rainy pearl: And on his back there lay a young one sleeping, No bigger than a mouse;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In America there are two classes of travel--first class, and with children. Travelling with children corresponds roughly to travel...ling third-class in Bulgaria. They tell me there is nothing lower in the world than third-class Bulgarian travel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment. ... The explorer seeks the... undiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history,the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity. ... If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates. ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, i...n its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »