Quotes About Observation

Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.

Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.

Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.

Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven't seen.

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

To travel and to get around different places, especially in station wagons, you could really see America.

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

I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who 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.

We actors don't travel as tourists with a camera, we really get to enter the life of a place and get to know it.

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

It's a wonderful thing, the D.T.'s. You can travel the world in a couple of hours. You see some mighty funny and curious things that come in assorted colors.

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

I'd heard street food was a big thing here in Mexico but I didn't think it meant the creatures that lived on the street.

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.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

The crow when travelling abroad came back just as black.

Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.