Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay."
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Alan Turing
Mathematician, Logician, Cryptanalyst
"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick."
Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
Lord Byron
Poet, Novelist
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."
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"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity."
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"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."
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"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure."
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"My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them."
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"Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain"
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"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."
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"Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?"
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"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
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"The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering."
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"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."
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"On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing."
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"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
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"My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws."
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"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far."
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"To lose your prejudices you must travel."
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"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."
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"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."
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"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."
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"In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?"
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