Freya Stark Quotes

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Good travel books, like travel itself, open the door to new worlds. In the strongest works the author's vision becomes our own, especially if his or her subject is a distant destination.

To travel is to live.

One must travel, to learn.

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

I find this life so interesting.

Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.

One life is not enough for me. I want to go lots of places.

It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.

If you're somebody that gets a chance to go somewhere... that has to work somewhere or go to another city, then do your best to see it. Because I just think that's the best way to have an interesting life.

Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.

It's a business driven by curiosity. If you don't want to go out and learn about the world and see the place, it's the wrong business. But if you do... I've had an unbelievable front row seat.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Spontaneity is what travel is all about.

I love traveling. I've been doing it since I was 16.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.

A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor