Here are some of our favorite quotes about travel–which apply to hiking as well:
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” from Ibn Battuta, the remarkable Arab who toured the known world 1200 years ago.
“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – A great line that explains why large groups always travel slower, by Henry David Thoreau, who supposedly was roughing at Walden Pond. But his sister brought him fresh baked cookies every day…
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien. And we’ve wandered many times, on our trips.
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville–which is just the excuse you need to get off-trail and explore a little bit.
And an all-time favorite from Mark Twain: “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.”
