Here's one about travel
"For my part, travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for traveler's sake. The great affair is to move."
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
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katydidnt · 61-69, F
I've enjoyed many solo bicycle tours into the back roads of America, tent-camping along the way. Some trips lasted for weeks, always beginning at our doorstep, day-by-day pressing further into the unknown. Your quotation connects strongly. Here's another, by Albert Camus:
"What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own [surroundings]...we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. This is the most obvious benefit of travel. At that moment we are feverish but also porous, so that the slightest touch makes us quiver to the depths of our being. We come across a cascade of light, and there is eternity. "
"What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own [surroundings]...we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. This is the most obvious benefit of travel. At that moment we are feverish but also porous, so that the slightest touch makes us quiver to the depths of our being. We come across a cascade of light, and there is eternity. "
Donotfolowme · 51-55, F
