Quotes About Wanderlust

I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

We're not just making 'Marco Polo,' we're living it. Because we traveled to Venice... Kazakhstan... into the jungles of Malaysia.

It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon.

I love to get out and see real life and to walk, which is why I love Venice so much - it's such a great walking city.

When I went to Europe for the first time, I went to Paris and then to Venice. So after Paris, Venice was my first great European city, and it just blew me away.

When I was younger, I lived on Hawai'i, in the small town of Kohala. It was beautiful there! There were the trees and rolling green hills. It was beautiful and quaint, but at the same time, I always wanted to just venture out.

I was born to travel and write verse.

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

I've always wanted to take a swim wherever it is they snap those screensaver photos—Fiji? Bora Bora? The Maldives?—and sleep in a hotel room that's more of a hut built on a dock over the water. After reading The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, I'm dying to see the sun set in Botswana. I want to visit Indian temples and volunteer at an elephant sanctuary.

It reminded me I could go anywhere when I got older, explore bottomless blue-green oceans, climb icy snow-capped mountains, drink tea with monks.

My grandfather always says that's what books are for. To travel without moving an inch.

I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.

That's what books are for, to travel without moving an inch.

To Travel without moving an inch.

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. (Passed-on by Granddaughter Emily)

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. Jhumpa Lahiri

You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

I don't travel for fun, because I travel so much with my work; when I'm not working, I mostly want to stay home.

To travel is to live. Breathe some life into your life and go outside!

When you travel, somehow, the world gets both bigger and smaller, simultaneously.

I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with idiots. That wasn't for me. I wanted to go out and have a look around.

I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things.

I want to go back to the Pantanal in Brazil. I've never been to sub-Saharan Africa. I'd like to take my Caravan over there and do a flying safari. I've never flown to Alaska.