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 »
The great object in life is Sensation--to feel that we exist, even though in pain; it is this "craving void" which drives us to ga...ming, to battle, to travel, to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere..., and it is vain to travel to find it new.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yes, but I do not travel to find comfortable, rich, and hospitable people, or clear sky, or ingots that cost too much. But if ther...e were any magnet that would point to the countries and houses where are the persons who are intrinsically rich and powerful, I would sell all, and buy it, and put myself on the road to-day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen... once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These men had no need to travel to be as wise as Solomon in all his glory, so similar are the lives of men in all countries, and f...raught with the same homely experiences. One half the world knows how the other half lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be... tinged with triviality. Our very intellect shall be macadamized, as it were,--its foundation broken into fragments for the wheels of travel to roll over.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »