Robert Louis Stevenson Travel Quotations

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.