Why Travel?

A friend of mine, Holly Dooley, sent me a beautiful collection of quotes today at work. It was a nice little send off and I want to share them here.

"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes."

"Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's dangerous business, Frodo, going our your door. You step out onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes"

"A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it"

"Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves"

"The World is a book, and those who do not travel see only a page"

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move"

"We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey"

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"

"We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way"

"Travel teaches toleration"

"My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities"

"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights, it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living"