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Quotes About Observation

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
~ Agatha Christie
Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.
~ Jerzy Kosinski
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
~ Cynthia Ozick
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
~ James Agee
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.
~ Bill Bryson
I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.
~ Muhammad Ali
Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
~ Erma Bombeck
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.
~ Margaret Oliphant
An English man does not travel to see English men.
~ Laurence Sterne
To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.
~ Edward Hoagland
Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye.
~ Joshua Reynolds
No matter how many times I visit New York City, I am always struck by the same thing - a yellow taxicab.
~ Scott Adams
You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your shoes?
~ David Wong
Depending on where you live and how you travel - whether you drive or bus or whatever - your experiences may be different. But I think that theme will be the same.
~ Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist.
~ George Carlin
He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.
~ Samuel Johnson
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.
~ Saint Augustine
I am constantly drawing inspiration from everything I see-the places I travel, the people I know and the movies I see.
~ Ralph Lauren
I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.
~ Lionel Richie
Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson