For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to travel
Robert Loius Stevenson
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time
T S Elliot
When a traveller returns home, let them not leave the countries where they have travelled altogether behind
Francis Bacon
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered
G K Chesterton
There is a great difference between travelling to see countries or to see people
Emile Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them
Francis Bacon
The map is not the territory
Alfred Korzbyski
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters, in the end
Ursula K Le Guin
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes
Marcel Proust
The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in
James Baldwin
The difference between landscape and landscape is small but there is a great difference between the beholders
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A traveller without observation is a bird without wings
Saad
Don't rely on others to show you the way, carry your own map
David Baird
Life is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour
Arnold Toynbee
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference
Robert Frost
Happy New Year and I wish you all a 2012 full of adventure and new landscapes