Immsersion Travel Quotes

At a time when so many people are just checking things off a bucket list, other travelers are finding that they want more. Going Local explores the whys and how to's of really experiencing an area and its culture through the people who live there. Includes a plethora of real life travel stories from experts and everyday people alike. ~ Nicholas Kontis

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities. ~ Tadao Ando

A part of us always remains
when we leave somewhere.
It is a part we can never reclaim
even if we revisit the place
for it was never ours to begin with.
There is so little of ourselves
that belongs to us.
This body is the earth's.
This heart is yours,
and his and theirs.
The only thing that is our own
is our freedom of will -
our freedom to choose
our attitudes in life.
All else is borrowed.
All else is everyone else's. ~ Kamand Kojouri

With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual. ~ James Russell Lowell

The travel writer Bruce Chatwin wrote that our nomadic past lives on in our need for distraction, our mania for the new. ~ Gloria Steinem

I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word. ~ Drew Barrymore

I never want to travel while I'm on vacation anymore. The only vacations I want to take now are ones where I just go and sit somewhere. ~ Hamilton Leithauser

We travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been ~ W.S. Merwin

Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see. ~ Floyd Skloot

Few pleasures can equal that of setting off into the unknown. ~ Marty Rubin

As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all. ~ Ai Weiwei

I can not travel into my past,
without consent of the future me. ~ Toba Beta

Renaldina told Renaldo and Renaldo told me, so that's two points for possible miscommunication, especially when you consider that she's deaf and he's blind, so it went through two language variations and two incompatible methods of travel, like mule to submarine. ~ Jarod Kintz

As the carriage bumped her bones along the dark country lanes, Martha decided that if she ever got back to her own time she would write a book called 'Travel in the Edwardian Era. It would be a short book - OUCH in capital letters followed by fifty pages of bad language. ~ Stephen Cole

It is far easier to travel than to write about it. ~ David Livingstone

I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled. ~ Tatjana Patitz

I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows. ~ Trishelle Cannatella

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you'll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber. ~ Noam Chomsky

I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down ... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads. ~ Garrett Hedlund

The place where you are is the one where my mind must live, wherever I might travel. ~ George Eliot

Consciousness can travel through space or can be present at multiple locations simultaneously. A conscious mind here can create a material change there, and is not limited by time and space or any physical forces. ~ Ilchi Lee

The jungle is alive. It's dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility. ~ Sara Sheridan

The world's a big place. You can't do or be everything, nor should you. Life is bigger than any one man. But when you read about other people's lives, when you read their stories, you catch a glimpse of a world bigger than your own. You may never travel a hundred miles from where you were born, but if you read stories, you'll get to see the entire world. ~ Steve Dublanica

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments. ~ Marc Newson

From the earliest age, we must learn to say good-bye to friends and family. We see our parents and siblings off at the station; we visit cousins, attend schools, join the regiment; we marry or travel abroad. It is part of the human experience that we are constantly gripping a good fellow by the shoulders and wishing him well, taking comfort from the notion that we will hear word of him soon enough. ~ Amor Towles

One soft humid early spring morning driving a winding road across Mount Tamalpais, the 2,500-foot mountain just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, a bend reveals a sudden vision of San Francisco in shades of blue, a city in a dream, and I was filled with a tremendous yearning to live in that place of blue hills and blue buildings, though I do live there, I had just left there after breakfast. ~ Rebecca Solnit

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip. ~ Ginger Rogers

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good. ~ Meg White

I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see. ~ Elizabeth Wein

Humboldt's early biographer, F.A. Schwarzenberg, subtitled his life of Humboldt What May Be Accomplished in a Lifetime. He summarised the areas of his subject's extraordinary curiosity as follows: '1) The knowledge of the Earth and its inhabitants. 2) The discovery of the higher laws of nature, which govern the universe, men, animals, plants, minerals. 3) The discovery of new forms of life. 4) The discovery of territories hitherto but imperfectly known, and their various productions. 5)
The acquaintance with new species of the human race
their manners, their language and the historical traces of their culture.'
What may be accomplished in a lifetime
and seldom or never is. ~ Alain De Botton

But sometimes one must travel the rough road to reach one's ultimate destination. ~ Karen Hawkins

Travel is rebellion in its purest form.
- we follow our heart
- we free ourselves of labels
- we lose control willingly
- we trade a role for reality
- we love the unfamiliar
- we trust strangers
- we own only what we can carry
- we search for better questions, not answers
- we truly graduate
- we, sometimes, choose never to come back. ~ Anonymous

Work is not just an activity that generates funds and creates desire; it's the vagabonding gestation period, wherein you earn your integrity, start making plans, and get your proverbial act together. Work is a time to dream about travel and write notes to yourself, but it's also the time to tie up your loose ends. Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from. Work is how you settle your financial and emotional debts - so that your travels are not an escape from your real life but a discovery of your real life. ~ Rolf Potts

You see, mzungus make these programmes because in their countries they know that everything will work correctly. And when they come to Uganda they still make their programmes but they forget that things don't work here like they do when they are at home. And then when something goes wrong, like there's no petrol, or the road has been flooded, or the battery doesn't work, they can't do all the things in their programme. Sometimes, even when they are at home, the programme doesn't work. At these times, when the programme goes bad, it makes them very unhappy. Very unhappy. ~ Luke F.D. Marsden

Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat. ~ Tahir Shah

Explore the timeless wonders of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Books are time travel. True readers all know this. But books don't just take you back to the time in which they were written; they can take you back to different versions of yourself. ~ Peter Swanson

People are easily shocked when their routine is disrupted and their ease of travel is restricted. We are dealing with a complete new face of terrorism - killing for the sake of killing. ~ Ashraf Ghani

I had to slow down. If I was going to listen to Venice properly I needed to hear the cadence of the place. I needed to stand still. <...> I thought of Whitman observing the parade of humanity with lewd concentration. Walt had a good ear. He loved opera and knew how to sit perfectly still. ~ Stephen Kuusisto

She dragged the soft cloth up and up, the fabric tickling along his sensitized skin. He trembled. Never had he been so responsive to a woman's slightest touch. ~ Angela Quarles

... a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane. ~ Rebecca Solnit

Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.

Life takes on a neat simplicity, too. Time ceases to have any meaning. When it is dark, you go to bed, and when it is light again you get up, and everything in between is just in between. It's quite wonderful, really.

You have no engagements, commitments, obligations, or duties; no special ambitions and only the smallest, least complicated of wants; you exist in a tranquil tedium, serenely beyond the reach of exasperation, "far removed from the seats of strife," as the early explorer and botanist William Bartram put it. All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge.

There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods. It's where you were yesterday, where you will be tomorrow. The woods is one boundless singularity. Every bend in the path presents a prospect indistinguishable from every other, every glimpse into the trees the same tangled mass. For all you know, your route could describe a very large, pointless circle. In a way, it would hardly matter.

At times, you become almost certain that you slabbed ~ Bill Bryson

Everything good is on the highway. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Its been a long time we both talked properly. I guess its because many thing went wrong between us and ik that ab its difficult to get back on the road; road on which we used to travel before. You know every time I open my messenger the first thing that i check is that whether you're online or not. Let's begin again and try not to discuss on old shits.. Love you ~ Taimoor Madni

Interstellar travel is like a flight to Australia on acid. ~ Stewart Stafford

I travel all over the world, usually 10 months out of the year. I stay at a lot of hotels, and the ones I like best are clean and not complicated. You go to bed and say, 'Wow, I feel comfortable.' ~ Nobu Matsuhisa

Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love. ~ Ernest Hemingway,