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In my other travel articles, you can read about itineraries, experiences and travel philosophies but in this article you will read about my top 5 travel quotes from the books that I have read and would urge you to read as well as fuel your wanderlust and make you take serious action over it.
These include:
Vagabonding - An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel : Rolf Potts
Walden : Henry David Thoreau
Into The Wild : Jon Krakauer
Wild : Cheryl Strayed
Becoming A Mountain : Stephen Alter
"A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea...Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don't go right now, we're never going to do it. And we'll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely" - Tim Cahill (From the Rolf Pott's book - Vagabonding).
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" - Henry David Thoreau (Walden).
"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun" - Christopher McCandles (from Jon Krakauer's book - Into The Wild).
"The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.” - Rolf Potts (Vagabonding)
I have covered the art of slow travelling in my recent article here.
“The secret of adventure, then, is not to carefully seek it out but to travel in such a way that it finds you. To do this, you first need to overcome the protective habits of home and open yourself up to unpredictability. As you begin to practice this openness, you’ll quickly discover adventure in the simple reality of a world that defies your expectations. More often than not, you’ll discover that “adventure” is a decision after the fact—a way of deciphering an event or an experience that you can’t quite explain.” - Rolf Potts (Vagabonding).
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