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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
The map is not the territory. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Without stirring abroad, one can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Without stirring abroad, one can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Does this boat go to Europe, France? (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
We travelers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Journeys end in lovers meeting. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
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