"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?"
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.“
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us."
-Marvin Davis
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"Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost."
-Bruce Paltrow
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"Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds."
-Bob Hayes
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"I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean."
-Philip Glass
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"I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel."
-Patrick Troughton
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"Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet."
-Yvon Chouinard
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