Globetrotting Quotes

“The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.”
― Martha Stewart

“We'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation - foliage so dense the trees lost track of whose leaves were whose - was a rainbow coalition of one colour: green. There was an infinity of greens, rendered all the greener by splashes of red hibiscus and the herons floating past, so white and big it seemed as if sheets hung out to dry had suddenly taken wing. All other colours - even purple and black - were shades of green. Light and shade were degrees of green. Greenness, here, was less a colour than a colonising impulse. Everything was either already green - like a snake, bright as a blade of grass, sidling across the footpath - or in the process of becoming so. Statues of the Buddha were mossy, furred with green.”
― Geoff Dyer, Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It: Essays

“My espionage travels took me once around the world, to all of the continents except Australia, over most of the great mountain ranges and across most of the great rivers. At various times I followed the routes of Captain Cook, Sinbad the Sailor, T.E. Lawrence, Magellan, Vasco da Gama, Marshal Lyautey, and Admiral Livy.

In telling some of the stories of those years, I plead the precedent of the Author of the Old Testament in being security minded, and I hope to be excused for leaving a number of things untold and a number unexplained.

Rome,
March 1953.”
― Donald Downes, The Scarlet Thread: Adventures in Wartime Espionage

“An entertaining must-read for any discerning traveller – Audley Traveller magazine”
― David C. Moore, Turning Left Around the World

“Travel continues to broaden the mind and slim the wallet.”
― M.J. Akbar, Have Pen, Will Travel: Observations of a Globetrotter

“You have to conquer nations in the West to become an empire. In India all you have to do is to conquer yourself to become and emperor.”
― M J Akbar