Quotes About Adaptation

I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.

I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.

There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.

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.

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.

Jet lag is for amateurs.

Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.

I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective.

In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.

Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

I wouldn't want to stay in any place for longer than 10 years, honestly. It's good to travel and see what's happening in the world.

Not having to travel and being able to settle in has helped me in training life and school life. I've learned to get a grip and take care of myself.

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.

A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.

I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and ridiculous.

Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right?

There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

When I first came to this country I didn't have a nickel in my pocket - now I have a nickel in my pocket.