So I've Heard

On Travel

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.”

- Trenton Lee Stewart -

On Travel

“Everybody needs beauty…places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.”

- John Muir -

On Travel

“I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.”

- Nyssa P. Chopra -

On Travel

“I want to be free — free to know people and their backgrounds — free to move to different parts of the world so I may learn that there are other morals and standards besides my own.”

- Sylvia Plath -

On Travel

“There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.” 

- Kate Douglas Wiggins -

On Travel

“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”

- Azar Nafisi -

On Travel

“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”

- Hilaire Belloc -

On Travel

“Take time to leave cities, at least once in a year, and go to some natural place, hills, sea, jungles, rivers, where you see nothing but nature… His creations. Where you only hear chirping of birds, clinkering of trees, murmuring of winds, splashes of water in the river, and uproar of waterfalls.” 

- Girdhar Joshi -

On Travel

“Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.” 

- Amin Maalouf -

On Travel

“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”

- John Muir -

On Travel

“I could leave—because I could return. I could return—because I knew adventure lay just beyond an open door. Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.”

- Gloria Steinem -

On Travel

“Traveling shouldn’t be just a tour, it should be a tale.” 

- Amit Kalantri -