"Some thoughts about travels" Personal Page by Manara

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879)

New landscapes, new customs. The accumulation of memories. A long life is not a question of years.
A man without memories might reach the age of a hundred and feel that his life has been a very brief one. (…) He wanted to slow life up and he quite rightly felt that by travelling he would make time move with less rapidity. You have noticed it yourself, I expect, on a holiday. If you stay in one place, the holiday passes like a flash, but if you go to three places, the holiday seems to last three times as long.
Graham Greene
Travels with my Aunt (1969)

No, we never did go back anywhere. (…) We talked of it, of course, but I guess Florence got all she wanted out of one look at a place. She had the seeing eye. I haven’t, unfortunately, so that the world is full of places to which I want to return (…) the whole world for me is like spots of colour in an immense canvas.
Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier (1915)

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon
Essays (1625)

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore
The Brook Kerith (1916)