Quote for Today: Garten Gevedon
Atmospheric dust billows in polychromed glitter above me, the vibrant, shimmering haze decorating the blue-blackness of space, and its luminous, variegated hues remind me of the one wish I …
Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
That (labyrinth)…became a world whose rules I lived by, and I understood the moral of mazes: sometimes you have to turn your back on your goal to get there, sometimes …
Quote for Today: Tyler Knott Gregson
What if it’s the there and not the here that I long for? The wander and not the wait, the magic in the lost feet stumbling down the faraway street …
Quote for Today: Judith Schalansky
Consulting maps can diminish the wanderlust that they awaken, as the act of looking at them can replace the act of travel. But looking at maps is much more than …
Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water, the leafy patterns of the shadows across the …
Quote for Today: Herman Hesse
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, the longing reveals …
Quote for Today: Mark Helprin
Quite possibly there’s nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That’s when you learn that the tragedy of plants is …
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, …
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: Matsuo Bashō
The sun and the moon are eternal voyagers; the years that come and go are travelers too. For those whose lives float away on boats, for those who greet old …