Everyone knows the same old tired travel quotes.
There are only so many ways you can superimpose text of “Not all who wander are lost”, or “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page” onto a pretty image before they become totally cliché. Which they totally have.
What about the quotes that truly inspire you to get out your old trusty backpack and explore?
Here are 10 backpacking quotes that will inspire you to hit the road:
1. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
2. “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.”― Judith Thurman
3. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ― Marcel Proust
4. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
5. “The old school of thought would have you believe that you’d be a fool to take on nature without arming yourself with every conceivable measure of safety and comfort under the sun. But that isn’t what being in nature is all about. Rather, it’s about feeling free, unbounded, shedding the distractions and barriers of our civilization—not bringing them with us.”― Ryel Kestenbaum
6. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
7. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
8. “The most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar
9. “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry
10. “When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon
