"We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing."
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"So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?"
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"It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate."
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"Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. We'll go nutting once more. We'll pluck the nut of the world, and crack it in the winter evenings. Theaters and all other sightseeing are puppet-shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the Cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth I recognize my friend."
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"Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better."
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"You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit."
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"One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning."
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"The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo."
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"I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone."
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"You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom."
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"Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those."
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"They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce."
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"A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from."
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"For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it."
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"I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her."
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"It's very far away, it takes about a half and a day to get there, if we travel by my... dragon-fly. No, it's not in Spain, but all the same, you know, it's a groovy name. And the wind's just right... Hang on, my darling, hang on if you wanna go. Hear it's a really groovy place, with just a little bit Spanish Castle Magic."
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"All is born of water; all is sustained by water."
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"I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them."
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"When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing."
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"Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye."
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