Quotes About Wanderlust

Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.

In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.

I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern Railway, what used to be the Western region, and in Europe as much as I could afford it. My parents used to think I was going places, but I wasn't, I was just travelling the trains.

I want to have an 'Eat, Pray, Love' experience where I drop off the face of the planet and move to Greece.

So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.

Having presented a few travel shows, I have become less lazy on holiday; it has encouraged me to go out and explore.

I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

I'm a daydreamer.

I was born in the middle of the Sahara desert while my parents were there and that's probably why I have a Bedouin spirit!

The real pleasure of cruising is arriving at a new destination.

I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

I think I'll always flutter all over. I'd like to live in different parts of the world - I'd love to live in Tuscany for a few months.

I love meandering down the streets of Tuscany and the food tastes like it's been kissed by the sun.

You just been travelin'.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

Watch that lad going down the street, his eyes are looking far out. Is his vision across the prairie or over the grey-backed seas? At any rate, it isn't here. Don't I know it!

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse below and dreams of home.

Why, to see, Loial said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. I read the books, all the travelers' accounts, and it began to burn in me that I had to see, not just read.

I read the books, all the travelers' accounts, and it began to burn in me that I had to see, not just read.

No, lad, it no be the treasure that makes for seeing the world. If you find yourself a fistful of gold, or some dead king's jewels, all well and good, but it be the strangeness you see that pulls you to the next horizon.

But in the secondary America we've been through, of back roads, and Chinaman's ditches, and Appaloosa horses, and sweeping mountain ranges, and meditative thoughts, and kids with pinecones and bumblebees and open sky above us mile after mile after mile, all through that, what was real, what was around us dominated. And so there wasn't much feeling of loneliness.

He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.