Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes About Travel
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Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.
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Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
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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; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
- Born: November 13, 1850
- Died: December 3, 1894
- Occupation: Novelist
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