One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
From Ella Maillart
We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.
When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.
The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.
When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.
Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.
Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.
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