Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
I love going out of my way, beyond what I know, and finding my way back a few extra miles, by another trail, with a compass that argues with the …
Quote for Today: Walt Whitman
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on …
Quote for Today: Pat Conroy
Her secret, we would discover, was that once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind …
Quote for Today: André Gide
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ―André Gide
Quote for Today: Wendell Berry
Often I have not known where I was going until I was already there. I have had my share of desires and goals, but my life has come to me …
Quote for Today: Nancy Mairs
Out of the new arrivals in our lives–the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the …
Quote for Today: Terry Pratchett
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people …
Quote for Today: John Wesley Powell
I am not sure that we can climb out of the canyon here, and, when at the top of the wall, I know enough of the country to be certain that it is …
Quote for Today: Lee Bontecou
The little pencil is a magic box… You can take a piece of paper and walk anywhere. —Lee Bontecou
Quote for Today: Anna Funder
I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know …