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    Edward Abbey
    “You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.”
    ― Edward Abbey, The Best of Edward Abbey
    tags: darkness, ecology, insight, nature, study
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    Edward Abbey
    “If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture—that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.”
    ― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
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    Edward Abbey
    “We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.”
    ― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
    tags: escape, hope, national-parks
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    Pablo Neruda
    “Take it all back. Life is boring, except for flowers, sunshine, your perfect legs. A glass of cold water when you are really thirsty. The way bodies fit together. Fresh and young and sweet. Coffee in the morning. These are just moments. I struggle with the in-betweens. I just want to never stop loving like there is nothing else to do, because what else is there to do?”
    ― Pablo Neruda
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    Albert Camus
    “Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don’t care what you’ll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: animals, caring, earth, forests, nature, plants, trees, wilderness
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    John Muir
    “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: nature
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    Matsuo Bashō
    “The journey itself is my home.”
    ― Matsuo Basho
    tags: travel
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    T.S. Eliot
    “So I find words I never thought to speak

    In streets I never thought I should revisit

    When I left my body on a distant shore.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: explore, fantasy, little-gidding, mystery, poetry, shore, streets, timelessness, travel, visit, words
    245 likes

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    Herman Melville
    “I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: adventure, adventuresome, adventurous, just-do-it, sailing, travel, travels
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    Audrey Niffenegger
    “There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry
    tags: inspirational, life, travel
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    Horatius
    “Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
    (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)”
    ― Horace, The Odes of Horace
    tags: change, climate, nature, sky, soul, travel
    237 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel
    6327 likes

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    Anita Desai
    “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
    ― Anita Desai
    tags: travel
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    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: life, travel
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    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: discovery, travel
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
    ― anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
    tags: inspirational, journey, quest, seekers, travel
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    Isabelle Eberhardt
    “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
    ― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
    tags: sun-drenched, travel
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    tags: finding-yourself, searching, travel
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    Jack Kerouac
    “because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: travel, wanderlust
    937 likes

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    Charles Bukowski
    “I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: airplane, life, sky, travel, wishes
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    Anderson Cooper
    “The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.”
    ― Anderson Cooper
    tags: action, progress, travel
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    John Masefield
    “Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain,
    And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.
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    ― John Masefield
    tags: nature, travel
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    ― E. E. Cummings
    tags: death, life, poetry
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: life
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
    31523 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
    39244 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    George Harrison
    “If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
    ― George Harrison
    tags: life, paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll
    11701 likes



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