Quotes About Appreciation

If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.

There's just something about being English. When you travel the world you feel more grateful.

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at least two of his records with me.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness

Oughta be a law everybody has to take a trip every two years just to make 'em realize how good home is.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

A wise traveler never despises his own country. [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]

I try to surf everyday or at least go for a walk on the beach if the waves are flat. The more I travel, the more I appreciate where I live and the ocean.

There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.

The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.

It's just something we're talking about and thinking about all the time, reflecting on our privilege - the privilege of what it means even be able to travel.

Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

On cable TV they have a weather channel - twenty-four hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.

A bred-in-the-bone Boston lady when asked why she never travelled said 'Why should I? I'm already there.'

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

Talk to the tree, make friends with it.