Why We Travel
Walking through the past with students who are the future is a hopeful experience.
Venita Mitchell, William Woods University
Travel is the best way we have of rescuing the humanity of places and saving them from abstraction and ideology.
Pico Iyer, "Why We Travel"
Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes . . . all these things are part of never-ending travel practice, not unlike doing scales on a piano, shooting free-throws, or meditating.
Phil Cousineau, The Art of Pilgrimage
Travel is a creative act — not simply loafing and inviting your soul, but feeding on the imagination, accounting for each fresh wonder, memorizing, and moving on. . . . And the best landscapes, apparently dense or featureless, hold surprises if they are studied patiently, in the kind of discomfort one can savor afterward.
Paul Theroux, To the Ends of the Earth
The students who elect longer trips overseas come back changed for good. Having gotten lost in Dublin, Madrid, or Cairo, they come home both stronger at the edges and softer at the center.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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