Sandy Lane, Barbados

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."

~ Louisa May Alcott

 Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, United States)

"The earth is what we all have in common."

~ Wendell Barry

Puffin, Shiant Islands

Photograph by Jim Richardson

"A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

~ George Edward Moore

"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better."

~ Laurie Anderson

"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."

~ Charles Lamb

Eiffel Tower, Paris

"Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness."

~ Ray Bradbury

"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."

~ Samuel Johnson